Metaphor Quotes

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.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

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.

Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

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

Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

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

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

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

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.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

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

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

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.

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

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

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut."

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

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

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

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

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.

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

You live for pretentious metaphors.

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

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

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.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.