Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up... kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going That looks a little bashed in back there... Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood 'Well yes I do Thank you very much.(talking about her body and the fact that she's aging.)
Metaphor & Analogy Quotes (177 Quotes)
I think they would be foolish not to support WAP. They're trying to push Web Clipping as a metaphor for surfing the Web, but I don't think they'll be that successful.
Language is memory and metaphor.
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...
The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too, the negation of dharmas. This corollary has elsewhere been illustrated by the simile of medicine which can heal any ill
My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow
Roped out to grass, and free you know as far
As the length of the rope.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
The fact that she's a successful lawyer doesn't mean she's going to do a good job as a Supreme Court justice. To use a baseball analogy, just because somebody is a good shortstop doesn't mean you put him in as a pitcher.
I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and higher energy prices and interest rates. It's probably going to be what's good for oil is going to be bad for the rest of the market.
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
I think that's what makes the show a cut above - the writing of a metaphor, the writing about a fantastical world and bringing it into a real life context that is accessible,
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
So-called ''austerity,'' the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. ''Pull in your belt'' is a slogan closely related to ''gird up your loins,'' or the guns-butter metaphor.
The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it,
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
There's something about it that still works. To draw on a sports analogy, there's a certain excitement that you get from watching that ball go in the hoop. That's still there, even though the sneakers are fancier.
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
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...
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
There's beginning to be some traction. If you use the metaphor of the forest at night, there's a lot of small animals rustling around in the leaves.
It's good to see that you have a rudimentary grasp of the design inference. I was not making a design inference when I employed the building analogy.