One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.
Metaphor & Analogy Quotes (177 Quotes)
This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor, containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility......the characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them and equally horrified by them......
To use a hockey analogy, for the first time in a long while, the NHL has momentum. I'm determined to see us build upon it and grow this great game,
I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.
To use a car industry analogy, it would be the same as Ford saying it is no longer producing an internal combustion engine. It's really that revolutionary. Film is done. Digital rules the world now.
Interpreting Jesus command to eat His flesh and drink His blood as a metaphor is not enough, ... The logic is there to be seen Jesus feeds the people literal bread. He offers literal eternal life to those who literally believe in him.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
The metaphor is that we're filling someone's bowl - and stomach - with the funds gathered from this event.
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
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.
If you could actually get rid of your special power which alienates you from the rest of the world, would you do it It's a metaphor very much about intolerance, I think, fear of anything that's different. If you could choose to not be Jewish or not be gay or not be African-American. Life maybe is not as easy if you're a minority. Would you take the opportunity to change that if you could
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Here, there is, curiously, no very close analogy. We know that having 'under God' on our currency, for example, has never been thought to violate the Establishment Clause. On the other hand, the requirement that someone salute the flag and recite the pledge, that's a different question - unsettled, but at least it clearly raises a different set of issues.
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
The Iraq war is a metaphor for other issues. It's a lot more than just the troops on the ground in Iraq.
Analogy of the Hot Coal Does not give off smoke. Lights others next to it.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.
The Super Bowl's a good analogy. You've got to make people look forward to it once a year.
Think of the basketball metaphor, ... He sees the whole court.
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.
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.
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.
Judea Pearl says his son was, like him, a secular Jew -- but one who was committed to his Judaism as a way of connecting with other religions and cultures. We had a meeting of the mind as far as religion, ... We both regarded religion as a metaphor for what we really believe in. It's a way of communicating with people. At the same time, (Daniel) was very enticed and enjoyed talking in religious vocabulary. He was interested in how people believed what they believed. He did an article about the Muslim calendar -- how it developed, how experts disagreed on when Ramadan comes in. He called me up (from London) and said, 'You're a scientist. You should tell me how to compute celestial motions.' I couldn't help him there. He did the research and came up with the difference between two (clerics') methods of computing.
It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Science is all metaphor.
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through, ... The grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes they don't want to be in their own.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
I have just two-handedly, fully grasped the bare wire of the master cable at the largest power plant in human metaphor. Shocked More like charged
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.
This relates to my other work and fits into a long line of thinking. I am using furniture here as a metaphor for bodies,
Jefferson wasn't really a primary author of the First Amendment. But Jefferson was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which is seen as kind of a precursor of the First Amendment. It was Jefferson's protg, James Madison, who helped draft the First Amendment. So the metaphor is apt and it is important.
These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor,
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
It's clearly an accident, but the fact that the White House didn't release this information, that it sat around for almost a day is, in itself, bizarre. Late-night comics are going to be all over it. You know, these things fairly or unfairly tend to become a metaphor for a presidency and don't be surprised if you see lots of jokes about the vice president was trigger happy, or he might have had better aim if he'd served in Vietnam.
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
But it has nothing to do with the analogy I was making.
If you look around the building now you can see a whole bunch of posters of orangutans which students put up saying, 'we're not orangutans.' But I think he got it right, it just took a while for people to understand the difference between metaphor and hard technical descriptions.
It will limit the success if they're not materially better than the current-generation games. The analogy is, do you buy a new PC if you don't have a reason to You just don't do it.
An analogy would be using a beach for a school. This land can't be reproduced.
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Here's an analogy. The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldn't divide by zero.
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.