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#metaphors

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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

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.


Eric Liu


#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.


Paul de Man


#metaphors #more #much #tenacious #than

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.


Anne Rice


#been #deeply #express #felt #i

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.


Mary Catherine Bateson


#few #few things #metaphor #metaphors #things

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.


Florence King


#metaphors #nothing #say #strain #who

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.


Milan Kundera


#dangerous #enters #first #her #into

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.


J. Michael Straczynski


#again #before #folks #i #i think

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.


Walter Hill


#actually #boxing #hollywood #hollywood movies #i

We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it's a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it.


Andrei Tarkovsky


#symbols #description






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