#metaphor

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#emotions #language #lie #metaphorically #moods

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know? ↗

— Damon Albarn

#around #cartoon #celebrity #change #culture

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

#again #being #books #bothered #dealing

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#religion #dreams

The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#food

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#hunger #men #metaphors #twitter #women

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company. ↗

— Chester Brown

#because #book #class #comic #comic book

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#comes #delivery #famous #history #ideas

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#alienation #battle #become #bullet #capital

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#metaphor #sense #talk