#metaphor

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. ↗

— John Updike

#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#care #craves #creativity #destiny #diligence

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#given #leans #lyric #metaphorical #recent

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#fuse #images #metaphor #together #try

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#else #enslavement #extension #freedom #freedom from

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#dreams #faith #flies #heard #i

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#creatures #efficacy #forgot #fruitful #god

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

#i #metaphorical #precise #say #scientists

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#coming-of-age-metaphore #feminism #iconic #age