Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
John Ralston Saul
CompetitionNaiveAnarchyMetaphor
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
Frank Grillo
LifeMeFaceFightingKnowMetaphor
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Jack Schwartz
SuccessResentmentJewsMetaphor
The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
Sia
WorkBestStrongMetaphorSongs
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
Tim Vine
KnowOutDateMetaphor
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
James Geary
LifeSecretMinuteUsSixMetaphor
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley
MusicPoetryUsMetaphorSpecificity
The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.
Adam Lashinsky
BusinessCloudMoreMetaphorGiant
As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.
Rodney Crowell
SongwriterMetaphorInstinctual
Science is all metaphor.
Timothy Leary
ScienceMetaphor
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
CreationPatternsJustMetaphor
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
KindUnderstandContextMetaphor
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
Taylor Hackford
DevilLevelWholeMetaphorConcept
Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.
Ruth Bernhard
EverythingOrderUniversalMetaphor
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
Marianne Faithfull
WritingSayMoreGotMetaphorMuch
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
ExpectationsMattersBecauseMetaphor
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Said Nursi
TruthRealityTransparencyMetaphor
Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
Joe R. Lansdale
StyleMeMetaphorRayImportance
I am a consummate metaphor addict.
Jason Reynolds
I AmMetaphorAmConsummateAddict
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.
Lydia Davis
MistakeWritingJustMetaphorMixed
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
PoetrySlangMetaphor
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
Pat Buchanan
FailurePigsMetaphorFollyBay
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.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
TimeRomanticWasteMetaphorLeast
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
GodSimpleReligionThoughtMetaphor
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