#metaphor

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air. ↗

— Keren Ann

#air #breathing #i #me #metaphoric

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#had #i #interest #lives #metaphor

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

#another #capacity #certain #discover #during

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#metaphors #mythology #religion #theism #art

Metaphor is embodied in language. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#language #metaphor

The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#couples #kiss #love #metaphor #need

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation