Quotes About Metaphor

Generative metaphors and proverbs both derive their power from a clever substitution: They substitute something easy to think about for something difficult.

Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many

Some analogies are so useful that they don't merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For example, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has been central to the insights generated by cognitive psychologists during the past fifty years.

Contrast Disney with Subway. Like Disney, Subway has created a metaphor for its frontline employees. They are "sandwich artists." This metaphor is the evil twin of Disney's "cast members." It is utterly useless as a guide to how the employee should act. Disney expects its cast members to behave like actors, but Subway does not expect its counter help to behave like artists. The

Time's an unsealed envelope and crime's a metaphor for anguish, private symphonies of intensity exploding in the dark.

No, if divisions were bananas, the First would be second, and the Second would be top.

He'd be all right if a man was to stretch a cow pussy over his head and let a bull fuck some sense into him.

His mind immediately seized on this metaphor and when he looked down at his wet hands he saw that they had taken on the elongated, dual clawed form of an ant's bristly pretarsus.

Marx - La philosophie est à l'étude du monde réel ce que l'onanisme est à l'amour sexuel.

Yes, indeed, the coconut—the delectable thought now revealed itself to him—was in truth the theosophical grail! The open shell with the meat and the sweet milk within was thus not just a symbol for, but in actual fact the body and blood of Christ.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

Recuerdo haber visto, en imágenes de archivo, a cerdos paseándose por la Biblioteca Nacional de Phnom Penh, vaciada por los jemeres rojos. Derribaban sillas y pisoteaban mondaduras. Los cerdos sustituían a los libros. Y nosotros sustituíamos a los cerdos.

All yings are time rats, time bandits. Open their guts and what you find inside their digestive tract are the second and minutes of hundreds of men's lives. Time cannibals. All those broken minute and hour hands just lying undigested in their stomach. It makes me want to drink.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

I think the soul must be heavy and smooth, Myrna: I deduce this from the buoyant, jerky movements of puppets, which lack souls.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty.

And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.

If an eagle be imprisoned on the back of a coin, and the coin tossed into the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

wish I were a sea squirt, If life became a strain, I'd veg out on the nearest rock And reabsorb my brain.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios....

Every soul is like a minnow Every mind is like a shark

the "API call" metaphor inevitably exposes the server's implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.