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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. Christopher Hitchens

Soul Mind Other Since Also Metaphor Sustains Literature Scripture

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol. Cody Fern

Me Metaphor Play Symbol

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. Craig Venter

You Humanity People Cause Think Indeed Bad More Absolute Genes Genome Metaphor Lot Very Traits Blueprint Should Notion

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece. David Fahrenthold

Good Harvard Wearing Student Talking Pile Metaphor Manure

I'm terrified of the ocean. I think it's beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it - I think that's a metaphor for a lot of things. David Harbour

Beautiful Water Dark Understanding Ocean Think Magical Never Terrified Metaphor Go Lot Goes Behind Deep Things

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor. David Hepworth

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. David Mitchell

Creativity Sometimes Matter Think Complex Scale Composing Seeing Similarities More Between Over Stumbling Like Fresh Metaphor Things

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie. Drew Barrymore

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally. Edward M. Lerner

Science Words Other More Mainstream Like Understand Metaphor Least Than Irony Literally Literature Usage Used Figure Speech

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence. Elfriede Jelinek

War Ways Charged Unrest Football Football Match Sport Became Match Metaphor Ended Nationalist After Former Then Yugoslavia Started Violence Associate

In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor. Florence King

You Political Tell Without Metaphor Commentary Baseball Players Need

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity. George Takei

Strength Together Diversity Trek Our Earth States Enterprise Gene Reminded Countries Concert Metaphor Coming Came Continually Canada Nations Us Working Team Star Star Trek United United States Starship

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby. Greg Graffin

Best Me Science Song Strong Stupid Enough Thomas About Songs Songwriters Like Know Most She Blinded Metaphor Been Heard Offense Anything Dose Who Radio Lucky Widely

There's a style in modern dance right now called Release Technique. It's based on a feeling of falling and catching yourself, and I thought it was such a good metaphor for the way life feels. Greta Gerwig

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state. Halsey

Made State Say Mental Metaphor Came Up Goes Anything Realize

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together. Hilary Mantel

Myself Together Book Way Bit Collage Running Threads Object Only Construct Between Like Know Make Narrative How Isolated Metaphor Dialogue Lines Scrap Common Different Holds Which Elaborate Description Here

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch. James Geary

Experience Our Way Some Touch Almost Metaphor Aspect Molded

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

Time Immediate Metaphor Least Dole Lot Romantic Bob Waste

In Judaism, the temple was the most holy site in the world. But if you extend that argument as a metaphor, and you say 'The world is a holy place,' and you're treating this holy place like a money-lending psycho, then Jesus says, 'This is hypocrisy!' and he'd point it out and flip it over. Jeff Baena

You World Argument Hypocrisy Say Says Out Temple Point He Over Like Most Judaism Metaphor Site Psycho Place Then Holy Flip Extend Jesus Treating

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