Metaphor Quotes
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
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 word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
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.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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.
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.
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.
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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.
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.
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.
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?
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.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
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.
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.
My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.