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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
Religion
You
Trouble
Own
Every
Way
One-Way
Stuck
Facts
True
Another
Understood
Metaphors
Gets
Them
Then
Interpreting
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
Aristotle
Words
Language
Thought
Rare
Three
Poet
Other
Imitate
Ought
Must
Objects
Vehicle
Like
Terms
Said
Metaphors
Were
Current
Any
Artist
May
Being
Either
Painter
Expression
Things
Necessity
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
Anne Rice
Me
Vampires
Through
Vehicles
Felt
Always
Metaphors
Been
Very
Which
Express
Deeply
Things
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom.
Ellen Ullman
Freedom
People
Problem
Liberty
Thought
Big
Machines
Critical
Brother
Feared
About
Individual
Computer
Individual Freedom
Big Brother
Metaphors
Role
Stopped
Being
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Lives
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Alien
Insects
Drop
Young
Living
Hat
Eat
Perfect
Empathy
Instincts
Remote
House
Also
None
Metaphors
Any
Human
Your
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
You
Few
Think
Bad
Toxic
Without
Metaphor
Metaphors
Few Things
Things
My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.
Alissa Quart
Life
Today
Husband
Baby
Late
Later
Except
Had
Like
Metaphors
Infants
America
Did
Then
Many
Include
Lived
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Avi Arad
Life
Great
Fears
Reading
Understanding
Real Life
Think
Our
Books
Hopes
Great Literature
About
Bothered
No-One
Dealing
Real
Metaphors
Being
Literature
Again
I think rap in general allows you to be more lyrically expressive. It's a lot easier to state your identity, as opposed to with a guitar making all these weird metaphors.
Awkwafina
You
Guitar
Think
State
Lyrically
Easier
Rap
General
More
Weird
Identity
Making
Metaphors
Opposed
Lot
Your
Expressive
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control over the universe. They're always seen as these uncontrollable events. But when you look at the science, they're actually the exact opposite.
Carrie Nugent
God
You
Science
Events
Perception
Seen
Control
Think
Universe
Kind
Exact
No Control
Exact Opposite
About
Fact
Uncontrollable
Over
Look
Always
Metaphors
Opposite
Public
Acts
Actually
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
Charles Jencks
Politics
Time
Selfish
Science
Big
Own
Victim
Sold
Books
Gene
Never
He
Like
Big Bang
Altruistic
Metaphors
Fitted
Bang
Title
Richard
Should
Many
Actually
The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with 'Luke Cage' is that I don't view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.
Cheo Hodari Coker
Musical
Television
Television Show
Cage
Concept
Making
Metaphors
Dialogue
Much
View
Show
Reason
Many
Keep
Luke
Album
I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix.
Dawn Richard
You
Everybody
Harmonies
Else
Type
Way
Bit
Tell
More
Records
Could
Write
Mainstream
Stuff
Wrote
Because
Always
Metaphors
Mix
Were
Contrast
Did
Different
Format
Used
Different Type
That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
Edgar Ramirez
Good
You
Humanity
Compassion
Care
Own
Action
Our
Characters
About
Scary
Horror
Mirrors
Horror Movie
Empathy
Like
Greater
Because
Always
Metaphors
Subjects
Reflections
Movie
Happens
Really
Moments
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.
Eric Liu
Health
You
Win
Smart
Care
Value
Think
Favor
Moral
Folks
Seem
Voters
Messages
Health Care
Metaphors
Get
Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Just
Etc
Then
Your
Appeal
Many
Describing
Right
Start
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
Nothing
Say
Writers
Always
Metaphors
Strain
Who
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
Geoffrey West
Life
Cities
Roads
Obvious
Call
Metaphors
Forth
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
George Michael
You
Yourself
Disservice
More
Making
Metaphors
Doing
Trying
Subtlety
Video
Much
Express
Things
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
Idina Menzel
Myself
Respond
Hiding
Something
More
Comfortable
Reveal
Revealing
Metaphors
Than
Behind
Artists
Themselves
Who
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
J. Michael Straczynski
Problems
Looking
Before
Think
Thinking
Ways
Television
Out
One Of The Problems
Folks
About
Trivial
Mentioned
New
Metaphors
Lot
New Ways
Again
Many
Things
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
James Geary
Life
Secret
All-Around
Minute
About
Around
Metaphor
Metaphors
Six
Us
Lives
Utter
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
Jenny Zhang
News
Sense
Hides
Only
Take
Like
Employ
Make
Surely
Always
Metaphors
Off
Note
Them
Notice
Who
Shows
Origins
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
John Updike
Work
Art
Puritan
General
Takes
Metaphors
Surreal
Surrealism
American
Behind
Little
Work Ethic
Ethic
Use
Playful
My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.
Jonathan Maberry
Sad
Funny
People
Heroic
Monster
Favorite
Telling
Threats
About
Scary
Allow
Most
Because
Always
Metaphors
Been
Tragic
Pathetic
So Much Fun
Stories
Story
Elastic
Much
Interfere
Fun
Even
Serve
Zombie
Humans
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen
You
Care
Earnest
Rampant
Inventive
Like
Well
Metaphors
Loser
Escalating
Ironic
Lit
Manic
Whether
Them
Flights
We use metaphors to express our own truths.
Lynn Nottage
Own
Our
Metaphors
Truths
Use
Express
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