“The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.”
Albert Einstein
“What happens in Kitchener-Waterloo in knowledge creation and dissemination and creation of high-value innovation is a metaphor for the 21st-century Canadian economy.”
David Johnston
“She sounds extremely creative, in that she turned historical figures into mythical figures. Obviously, she's absorbing images and metaphors, and shows she's thinking. What more do we want a seven-year-old to do?”
Nikki Giovanni
“Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.”
Walter Hill
“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...”
Gerard Way