Quotes about Metaphor

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor Votes: 4

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Votes: 4

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. Votes: 4

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. Votes: 4

Metaphor is embodied in language. Votes: 3

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. Votes: 3

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. Votes: 3

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. Votes: 3

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. Votes: 3

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. Votes: 3

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. Votes: 3

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. Votes: 3

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. Votes: 3

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Votes: 3

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. Votes: 3

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. Votes: 3

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. Votes: 3

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. Votes: 3

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. Votes: 3

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways. Votes: 3

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. Votes: 3

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. Votes: 3

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent. Votes: 3

Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight. Votes: 3

I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques. Votes: 3

Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide. Votes: 3

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. Votes: 3

Science is all metaphor. Votes: 2

Language is memory and metaphor. Votes: 2

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. Votes: 2

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. Votes: 2

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. Votes: 2

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Votes: 2

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. Votes: 2

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. Votes: 2

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Votes: 2

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general. Votes: 2

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. Votes: 2

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. Votes: 2

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. Votes: 2

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish. Votes: 2

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. Votes: 2

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. Votes: 2

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. Votes: 2

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. Votes: 2

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it. Votes: 2

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. Votes: 2

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie. Votes: 2

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings. Votes: 2

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind. Votes: 2

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself. Votes: 2

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. Votes: 2

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you. Votes: 2

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life. Votes: 2

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. Votes: 2

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification. Votes: 2

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that. Votes: 2

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets. Votes: 2

There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen. Votes: 2

Science always uses metaphor. Votes: 0

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased Votes: 0

Any supreme insight is a metaphor. Votes: 0

Censorship is the mother of metaphor. Votes: 0

Sports are a metaphor for life. Votes: 0

Everything in life is a metaphor. Votes: 0

A creed is an ossified metaphor. Votes: 0

A metaphor is like a simile. Votes: 0

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, Votes: 0

It's a mind, it works by metaphor. Votes: 0

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance. Votes: 0

It is by metaphor that language grows. Votes: 0

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. Votes: 0

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. Votes: 0

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth. Votes: 0

A single metaphor can give birth to love. Votes: 0

The metaphor is the story, not the character. Votes: 0

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. Votes: 0

A world ends when its metaphor has died. Votes: 0

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. Votes: 0

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle. Votes: 0

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor. Votes: 0

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Votes: 0

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. Votes: 0

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good Votes: 0

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor. Votes: 0

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor. Votes: 0

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. Votes: 0

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. Votes: 0

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness. Votes: 0

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. Votes: 0

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food. Votes: 0

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith. Votes: 0

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! Votes: 0

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. Votes: 0

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? Votes: 0

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man Votes: 0

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar. Votes: 0

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war. Votes: 0

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up. Votes: 0

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. Votes: 0

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time. Votes: 0

If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it? Votes: 0

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that. Votes: 0

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Votes: 0

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. Votes: 0

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. Votes: 0

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. Votes: 0

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. Votes: 0

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. Votes: 0

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation. Votes: 0

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Votes: 0

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom Votes: 0

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. Votes: 0

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. Votes: 0

Tomorrow is but a metaphor to a door that may never open. Votes: 0

A madman imitates nature, but a wise man draws a metaphor from it. Votes: 0

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. Votes: 0

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality. Votes: 0

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. Votes: 0

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry Votes: 0

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other. Votes: 0

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence. Votes: 0

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it. Votes: 0

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. Votes: 0

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. Votes: 0

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Votes: 0

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself. Votes: 0

The #"Ž knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go. Votes: 0

Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor. Votes: 0

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. Votes: 0

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is. Votes: 0

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Votes: 0

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Votes: 0

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. Votes: 0

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. Votes: 0

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all Votes: 0

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. Votes: 0

The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history. Votes: 0

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. Votes: 0

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol. Votes: 0

It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go. Votes: 0

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. Votes: 0

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. Votes: 0

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. Votes: 0

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. Votes: 0

I threw out my sausage, and replaced it with a healthier penis metaphor, like a cucumber. Votes: 0

When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby? Votes: 0

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs. Votes: 0

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be? Votes: 0

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. Votes: 0

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. Votes: 0

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. Votes: 0

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. Votes: 0

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. Votes: 0

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. Votes: 0

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. Votes: 0

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. Votes: 0

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. Votes: 0

I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. Votes: 0

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. Votes: 0

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch. Votes: 0

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. Votes: 0

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Votes: 0

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. Votes: 0

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk. Votes: 0

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. Votes: 0

Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!) Votes: 0

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. Votes: 0

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. Votes: 0

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work. Votes: 0

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. Votes: 0

For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height! Votes: 0

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Votes: 0

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being. Votes: 0

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often. Votes: 0

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Votes: 0

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment. Votes: 0

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. Votes: 0

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life Votes: 0

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. Votes: 0

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. Votes: 0

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. Votes: 0

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. Votes: 0

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. Votes: 0

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting Votes: 0

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. Votes: 0

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. Votes: 0

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. Votes: 0

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves. Votes: 0

Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. Votes: 0

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. Votes: 0

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk. Votes: 0

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports. Votes: 0

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. Votes: 0

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. Votes: 0

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. Votes: 0

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. Votes: 0

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. Votes: 0

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. Votes: 0

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?" Votes: 0

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. Votes: 0

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. Votes: 0

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. Votes: 0

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness. Votes: 0

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. Votes: 0

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. Votes: 0

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family. Votes: 0

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. Votes: 0

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. Votes: 0

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. Votes: 0

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. Votes: 0

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can. Votes: 0

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. Votes: 0

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. Votes: 0

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible. Votes: 0

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. Votes: 0

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. Votes: 0

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. Votes: 0

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am. Votes: 0

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity. Votes: 0

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. Votes: 0

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is. Votes: 0

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am. Votes: 0

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. Votes: 0

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. Votes: 0

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. Votes: 0

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. Votes: 0

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. Votes: 0

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. Votes: 0

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been "a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. Votes: 0

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem. Votes: 0

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability. Votes: 0

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. Votes: 0

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story. Votes: 0

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust. Votes: 0

This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change. Votes: 0

Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist. Votes: 0

A smile is like a simile, if you have a mouth like a metaphor. That would make for like the best kiss ever. Votes: 0

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. Votes: 0

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? Votes: 0

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities. Votes: 0

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor). Votes: 0

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing. Votes: 0

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life. Votes: 0

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life. Votes: 0

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere. Votes: 0

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor. Votes: 0

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way. Votes: 0

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. Votes: 0

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it. Votes: 0

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way Votes: 0

Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. Votes: 0

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger. Votes: 0

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. Votes: 0

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture. Votes: 0

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance. Votes: 0

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. Votes: 0

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. Votes: 0

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model. Votes: 0

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. Votes: 0

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today. Votes: 0

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love. Votes: 0

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. Votes: 0

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us. Votes: 0

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 0

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility. Votes: 0

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. Votes: 0

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor. Votes: 0

Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 0

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about. Votes: 0

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream. Votes: 0

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable. Votes: 0

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself Votes: 0

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax. Votes: 0

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. Votes: 0

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts. Votes: 0

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. Votes: 0

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going. Votes: 0

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see. Votes: 0

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image. Votes: 0

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. Votes: 0

Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one. Unexpected encounters with dog shit, definitely. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that. Votes: 0

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor. Votes: 0

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity. Votes: 0

On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation. Votes: 0

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. Votes: 0

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking. Votes: 0

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is. Votes: 0

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. Votes: 0

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof. Votes: 0

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be. Votes: 0

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby . Votes: 0

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground. Votes: 0

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese. Votes: 0

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels. Votes: 0

Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life. Votes: 0

You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world. Votes: 0

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality. Votes: 0

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness. Votes: 0

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses. Votes: 0

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. Votes: 0

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. Votes: 0

The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol. Votes: 0

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future. Votes: 0

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away? Votes: 0

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter. Votes: 0

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind. Votes: 0

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory Votes: 0

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch. Votes: 0

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people. Votes: 0

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon! Votes: 0

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture that's not conditioned to think in terms of symbol. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always. Votes: 0

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know? Votes: 0

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future. Votes: 0

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor. Votes: 0

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor. Votes: 0

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born. Votes: 0

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief. Votes: 0

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak. Votes: 0

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read. Votes: 0

In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism. Votes: 0

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else. Votes: 0

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come. Votes: 0

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story. Votes: 0

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey. Votes: 0

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies. Votes: 0

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. Votes: 0

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor. Votes: 0

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first. Votes: 0

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it. Votes: 0

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax. Votes: 0

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still. Votes: 0

Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the elements of our life for our jaded, numbed, even ailing sense of imagination. Votes: 0

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture. Votes: 0

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith. Votes: 0