(116 quotes found)
“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
“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
“Think of the basketball metaphor, ... He sees the whole court.”
Charles Hynes
“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.”
Walter Mosley
“These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor. And Dan Rather represents not just CBS, but all of network news.”
Mark Feldstein
“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.”
Mary Catherine Bateson
“The shoes are a metaphor for these two women who have the kind of dynamic that a lot of women have with each other where one is thinner, the other is smarter. One is more attractive, the other has more money.”
Sophie de Rakoff Carbonell
“Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.”
Walter Hill
“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
“They should have told him that [the fence he fell through on a campaign stop] was not a metaphor. He should've gotten back up and dove in again, like Pearl Jam. He would have gotten the young vote, the MTV vote...”
Bob Dole
