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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with 'Luke Cage' is that I don't view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.
Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.
Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.
Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,
and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
