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I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.
To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.
My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
Pachinko, like all gambling, is rigged. The house always wins. It's a central metaphor of life. It's rigged, but you keep playing.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.
I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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
The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.
The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.
New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no longer spot on.
Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
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.
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.