Best 646 quotes in «metaphor quotes» category

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

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

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

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

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

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

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

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

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

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

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

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

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

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

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

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.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

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

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

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

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

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

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:] We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what Helga teaches, isn't it? Stay right with God. I'll stay right with Achilles. I'll honor my papa, that's for sure, so I can stay alive until I'm old enough to go out on my own.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.