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#metaphor

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But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.


Godfrey Reggio


#film #get #i #in fact #look

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.


Robert Smithson


#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.


Steve Jobs


#because #before #big #big thing #desktop

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.


Jack Schwartz


#dogged #exodus #jews #metaphor #outset

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.


Jane Fonda


#arch #born #decline #into #living

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.


Jack Nicholson


#people #shampoo #should #speak #who

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.


Joyce Carol Oates


#i #metaphorical #precise #say #scientists

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.


R.W. and Rev. Joseph Fort Newton


#metaphor #age

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...


Wallace Stevens


#change

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.


J. T. Walsh


#material #materialists #metaphors #our #such






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