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#metaphors

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #metaphors




The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ↗


— Dar Williams


#because #funny #funny thing #go #got

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

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. ↗


— M. H. Abrams


#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

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

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' blühen, lass' dem Ding den Lauf frag' nicht nach dem Ertrag! Es muss auch Spiel und Unschuld sein und Blütenüberfluss sonst wär' die Welt uns viel zu klein und Leben kein Genuss. ↗


— Hermann Hesse


#beauty #blossoms #enjoyment #growth #ideas

Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out metaphor acts as a shortcut to meaning. ↗


— Bruna Martinuzzi


#metaphors #communication

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night. ↗


— Yukio Mishima


#communication

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did. ↗


— Ray Bradbury


#literature #metaphors #writing #art

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. ↗


— Rachel Hartman


#metaphors #nature

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ↗


— Orson Scott Card


#least #metaphors #most #space #truth






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