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I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
— George Tillman Jr.
It's always a metaphor when a bird shits on your head.
— Seth Kupchick
We are not just tickling the dragon's tail; we are timing a flyby through its open jaws while it is yawning.
— Marko Kloos
Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
— Dennis Potter
My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
— Thomm Quackenbush
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!
— Ruth Westheimer
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
— Robert Breault
A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.
— Sarah Hall
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
— Walker Percy
It's a mind, it works by metaphor.
— Simon J. Townley
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
— Frank Grillo
If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.
— Eva Stachniak
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
— Matt Groening
Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.
— Nenia Campbell
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
— Joseph Campbell
She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.
— Patrick Major Dallas OR
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
— Jeanette Winterson
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.
— Ani DiFranco
He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was.
— Haruki Murakami
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.
— Vivian Gornick
His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
— Jerry Spinelli
It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.
— Stephen Colbert
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
— Barry Lyga
It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.
— Renee Ahdieh
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
— Gore Vidal
Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight.
— Rudy Francisco
He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.
— Erin Bowman
That's the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.
— Lisa Wingate
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
— Harrison Ford
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
— Rachel Cohn
Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.
— David Joseph Cribbin
When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.
— Christopher Paolini
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
— Neil Postman
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
— Jane Hirshfield
I've never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that's enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.
— Chila Woychik
Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.
— David James Duncan
Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A metaphor.
— John Green
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
— Thom Yorke
But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
— Ann Aguirre
Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.
— Matt Simpson
There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it.
— Lauren Oliver
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
— Amanda Palmer
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.
— Kathleen Hall Jamieson
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
— Bernard Malamud
It is not unusual for the central menace of a work of horror fiction to be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.
— H.P. Lovecraft
It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.
— Dov Davidoff
Secrets, power. It's all a metaphor.
— Joe Abercrombie
Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.
— Richard Condon
Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.
— Nenia Campbell
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.
— Jerry Spinelli
Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others ... It's a good metaphor for parenting
— Amanda Peet
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.
— Rick Yancey
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
— Terry Pratchett
It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.
— Terry Pratchett
Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.
— G. Willow Wilson
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.
— Thomas Struth
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.
— Mark Barrowcliffe
It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.
— Roger Zelazny
It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
— Irvine Welsh
If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?
— K.K. Raghava
It's so much easier to shut the refrigerator door, which is totally a metaphor, I realize, for my life
— Matthew Quick
I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.She shrugged.
'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said ... — James S.A. Corey
