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Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.
Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
Horror is my favorite genre, but it works best for me when it's a metaphor on top of something we can all relate to.
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.