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meta Quotes and Quotations
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. Diane Ackerman | top
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. F. H. Bradley | top
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Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though! Geezer Butler | top
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As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable. Howard Coble | top
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins | top
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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. William Dunbar | top
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I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. Ray Harryhausen | top
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There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. William H. Hunt | top
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More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. Bill Hybels | top
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We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't. Helmut Jahn | top
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Language is memory and metaphor. Storm Jameson | top
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I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey. Swoosie Kurtz | top
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Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in. Bernhard Langer | top
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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. Audre Lorde | top
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. Paul de Man | top
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People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. Jack Nicholson | top
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The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal. Paul Parker | top
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Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter | top
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I think I must have a super-fast metabolism. Katie Price | top
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. John Ray | top
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The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous. Fred Schneider | top
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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model. Erwin Schrodinger | top
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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. Henry Taube | top
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. Voltaire | top
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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. John Williams | top