Best 646 quotes in «metaphor quotes» category

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

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

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

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

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.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I like the idea of watching the sun go down in the ocean. I've always felt comfortable about that, I like sunsets. There's something about a westward movement that seems fascinating, although the Irish refer to going West as a metaphor for dying. I see it differently.

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

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

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 loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

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

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

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

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured and jailed. I always used metaphors that could be interpreted in more than one way. Maybe this style protected me.

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

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

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

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

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

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

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

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

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

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

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

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

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