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• The metaphor I’ve used is… somebody’s going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won’t be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

  Randy Pausch

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  Tags in Metaphor, Cliff

• I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

  Amanda Palmer

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  Tags in Metaphor, Literal

• They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

  Wendy Mass

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  Tags in Metaphor

• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  Taylor Hackford

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  Tags in Devil, Metaphor

• Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

  Bill Griffith

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  Tags in Metaphor, Attention

• Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

  Sharon Olds

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  Tags in Metaphor

• I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

  Seth Lloyd

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  Tags in Metaphor

• In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

  Seth Lloyd

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  Tags in Metaphor, Actually

• 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.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Tags in Metaphor

• All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Tags in Metaphor, Poetry

• Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I’ve made one that’s actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

  Walter Hill

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Metaphor

• Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

  Thomas Harrison

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  Tags in Metaphor, Fuse, Unlike, Images

• It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Tags in Metaphor, Occurred, Abandonment

• Science is all metaphor.

  Timothy Leary

  Tags in Metaphor

• The river is a metaphor for life in general, … all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole thing’s just about life and death.

  Zakk Wylde

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Metaphor

• In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.

  Thomas Harrison

  Tags in Lyric, Metaphor, Symbolic, Recent, Metaphorical

• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it’s almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  Damon Albarn

  Tags in Cartoon, Metaphor