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![From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it’s a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There’s misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/821/820522/820522.webp "From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it’s a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There’s misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive Picture Quote #1")
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I have what I call the theater of morning inside my head, all these voices talking to me. When they come up with a good metaphor, then I jump out of bed and trap them before they’re gone (Metaphor Quotes)
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory (Metaphor Quotes)
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature (Metaphor Quotes)
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us (Metaphor Quotes)
I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I’m disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That’s a really gross metaphor (Metaphor Quotes)
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right (Metaphor Quotes)
But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances (Metaphor Quotes)
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible (Metaphor Quotes)
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn’t racing. Life is the metaphor for the race (Metaphor Quotes)
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism? (Metaphor Quotes)
This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change (Metaphor Quotes)
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 (Metaphor Quotes)
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 (Metaphor Quotes)
You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job (Metaphor Quotes)
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down (Metaphor Quotes)
It’s a wonder you don’t see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often (Metaphor Quotes)
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content (Metaphor Quotes)
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada (Metaphor Quotes)
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor (Metaphor Quotes)
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things (Metaphor Quotes)
I’m just fascinated by houses. In another life, I’d have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I’d collect them like other people collect teapots. I don’t know why I love them so much. I’m just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives (Metaphor Quotes)
The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson’s metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent (Metaphor Quotes)
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It’s as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don’t know what these guys think they’re doing, but it looks like they’re committing political suicide (Metaphor Quotes)
From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it’s a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There’s misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive (Metaphor Quotes)
It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together (Metaphor Quotes)
The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive. (Metaphor Quotes)
This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change. (Metaphor Quotes)
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, ‘Anglo-Saxon’ embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored. (Metaphor Quotes)
It’s been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept. (Metaphor Quotes)
People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we’re hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. (Metaphor Quotes)