Metaphor Quotes

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

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.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

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.

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

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

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

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.

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

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

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

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

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

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

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.

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

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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.

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

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

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

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

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

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

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!

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.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.