Metaphor Quotes

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.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

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

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

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.

A metaphor is like a simile.

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.

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

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

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

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

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

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

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

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

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

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

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

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.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

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

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.

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.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

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.

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.

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

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

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

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

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

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

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

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.