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Language is memory and metaphor.

Storm Jameson

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

G. K. Chesterton

Branson is a metaphor for red state America.

Robert Schmuhl

Science is all metaphor.

Timothy Leary

These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor.

Mark Feldstein

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

And the other great thing that we're allowed to do — and you're not — is use metaphor.

Peter Sellars

The Negro is America's metaphor.

Richard Wright

It's really about spirituality. Gardening is a metaphor.

Tom Spencer

That request is still active with the court and the ball is now in the judge's -- well, that's kind of a bad metaphor -- but the judge has the responsibility to make a decision.

Julie Peterson

The metaphor that should be looked for was in Cheney not following the rules, getting by without shooting the way you're supposed to. You are supposed to shoot the bird, not your friend.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I started to use mountain climbing as a metaphor for what life with MS is like. We can't always do what we want when we want. When conditions mandate, we take a little longer, try a little harder and dig a little deeper.

Wendy Booker

Hands, the perfect metaphor for Barry Avrich's visual masturbation.

Tom Hall

I began to see the character more as a metaphor for how a person survives and manages to maintain his innocence. I just love the bravery and elegance with which he faces the violence in the world.

Neil Jordan

Interpreting Jesus' command to eat His flesh and drink His blood as a metaphor … is not enough, ... The logic is there to be seen: Jesus feeds the people literal bread. He offers literal eternal life to those who literally believe in him.

Jeff Cavins

To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics.

Rich Bond

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

Mary Catherine Bateson

The list is a metaphor for troubled national parks all across the nation, ... Some of our national parks are becoming a national disgrace.

Thomas Kiernan

That metaphor has just gotten completely overloaded. They just didn't know it was there.

Chris Capossela

We planned for weeks and weeks on this. If you want to use a sports metaphor, you'd say we left it all on the field.

Steve Marks

Cannonball. I guess it's a train metaphor for U.S. history.

Rob Bullington

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

This must be I guess the most extreme form of unintended consequence, but it seemed to me a great metaphor for things that happen all the time.

Joseph Kanon

The metaphor is that we're filling someone's bowl - and stomach - with the funds gathered from this event.

Ellen Morris

The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole thing's just about life and death.

Zakk Wylde