Metaphor Quotes - page 10

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. (Jacob T. Schwartz)
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. View quote
John Philpot Curran
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare. View quote
Kenny Loggins
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. View quote
Mark Burnett
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever. View quote
Mary Gordon
I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp. View quote
Matt Reeves
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside. View quote
Marie Rutkoski
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world. View quote
Naomi Shihab Nye
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario. (Neill Blomkamp)
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. View quote
Nick Denton
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. View quote
Peter Hammill
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. View quote
Rachel Cohn
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. View quote
Robert Gottlieb
I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor. View quote
Robert Winston
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life. View quote
Sebastian Coe
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk. View quote
Tift Merritt
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. (Tim Vine)
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability. View quote
Will Cotton
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it. View quote
James Gleick
Jeanette [Armstrong, "a traditional Okanagan Indian"] said, 'Attitudes about the species communication are the primary difference between western and indigenous philosophies. Even the most progressive western philosophers still generally believe that listening to the land is a metaphor.' She paused, then continued emphatically, 'It's not a metaphor. It's how the world is.' View quote
Derrick Jensen
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship. View quote
Marjane Satrapi