Metaphor Quotes

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!

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

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

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Science is all metaphor.

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

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.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

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.

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.

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

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

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.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

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

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

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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.

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

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.

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

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

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

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.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

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

Everything in life is a metaphor.

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.

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.

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

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.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

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.

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.

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.

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

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.