Quotes by Metaphor What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is. Nathan Oliveira creating metaphor figures It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe in autonomy. And in the end, perhaps that idea of interconnectedness is a moral position. Nick Laird metaphor moral believe He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. Neil Gaiman metaphor gone world It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself Nick Hornby dip metaphor romance Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. Nigel Cooke painting metaphor consciousness It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility. Northrop Frye surrender metaphor language Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. Northrop Frye unity metaphor mind I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general. Olivier Dahan metaphor grace thinking I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured and jailed. I always used metaphors that could be interpreted in more than one way. Maybe this style protected me. Osama Alomar metaphor style lucky Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. Paul de Man tenacious metaphor facts The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur dictionary metaphor It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor. Paul Simon metaphor baseball use A metaphor cannot be paraphrased Percival Everett paraphrased metaphor Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. Peter Greenaway metaphor narrative cinema I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. Peter Hammill currents metaphor sake Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us. Peter Singer metaphor fiction thinking The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. Pierre Bourdieu metaphor mind world We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. R. Buckminster Fuller prisoner metaphor My fans have always loved my metaphors. R. Kelly metaphor fans The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go. R.A. Dickey knuckleballs metaphor letting-go «1234567891011»
