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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
by Audre Lorde (Poet, American , born in 1934) keywords: enough, going, keep, know, long, make, metaphor, multiply, personal, possible, race, sex, survive, take, teach, then, thing , time Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
by Sharon Olds (Poet, American , born in 1942) keywords: air, aware, breathe, dance, deeply, life, many, maybe, metaphor, more, need, out, take, than, think, use, usually , years If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
by Octavio Paz (Poet, Mexican , born in 1914) keywords: before, couple, excellence, forces, forms, human, intersection, metaphor, par, point, recaptured, return, seed, time , universe The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
by Dennis Potter (Dramatist, British , born in 1935) keywords: amazing, create, human, leap, metaphor, speech, strangest, thing , writing Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
by Robert Redford (Actor, American , born in 1937) keywords: against, baseball, because, example, fishing, golf, greater, life, metaphor, nature, played, playing, skiing, sport, sports, than, wonderful , yourself You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
by Robert Redford (Actor, American , born in 1937) keywords: against, close, comes, completely, control, find, golf, good, metaphor, nature, own, particularly, sport, story, test, tiger, way, woods , yourself But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
by Godfrey Reggio (Director, American , born in 1940) keywords: fact, film, get, look, metaphor, negation, negative, only, positive, print, through, trying , value We often attribute "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
by John Searle (Philosopher, American , born in 1932) keywords: adding, analogy, attribute, cars, cognitive, machines, metaphor, nothing, often, other, proved, such , understanding The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
by Paul Valery (Poet, French , born in 1871) topics: Science keywords: capital, discovery, folly, inborn, metaphor, oneself, oracle, paradox, proof, spring, torrent, truths , us I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
by Vera Wang (Designer, American , born in 1949) keywords: book, both, creativity, define, dresses, intellectually, lives, metaphor, more, than, their, visually, vocabulary, wanted, wedding, weddings , women Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
by Jody Watley (Musician, American , born in 1959) keywords: also, appreciating, been, even, flower, good, growth, knowing, main, metaphor, more, now, obviously, really, remembering, responsibility, sexual, someone , song The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
by John Williams (Composer, American , born in 1932) keywords: best, between, competition, cooperation, countries, healthy, international, interplay, kind, metaphor, olympics, represents, us, wholesome, wonderful , world Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
by Jeanette Winterson (Novelist, British , born in 1959) keywords: find, grail, heart, holy, life, metaphor, never, perfect, quest, seemed , terror It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
by Dwight Yoakam (Musician, American , born in 1956) keywords: abandonment, became, century, early, film, lives, metaphor, occurred, old, part , west
