#metaphor

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#against #athletes #difficulty #great #important

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#challenges #how #life #look #metaphor

Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle) ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#metaphor #love

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it. ↗

— Larry David

#afford #allergic #bad #caviar #certainly

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. ↗

— Tim Vine

#i #know #metaphor #out #went

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more. ↗

— Jody Watley

#also #appreciating #been #even #flower