Metaphor Quotes
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Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
— Mason Cooley
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
— E. M. Forster
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.
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
— Deborah Copaken
Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.
— Faith Hunter
A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.
— David Joseph Cribbin
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
— James Geary
Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
— William Carlos Williams
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
— Bill Griffith
You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.
— Shirley Jump
You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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
Dark-bright fire lit eyes
— Audre Lorde
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
— Thomas Fuller
Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.
— Os Guinness
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
— I. A. Richards
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
— Thomas S. Monson
A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.
— Katherine McIntyre
What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?
— Justin Cronin
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.
— Robert Hughes
Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain.
— Rabih Alameddine
Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.
— Nenia Campbell
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
— Walter Benjamin
Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road - very likely the wrong road.
— G.K. Chesterton
Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.
— George Lakoff
My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins
— Cynthia Hand
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
— John Ralston Saul
The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.
— Christopher Jones
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
— Ilsa J. Bick
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
— James Geary
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
— Truman Capote
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
— Jan Struther
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
— Anna Deavere Smith
It is by metaphor that language grows.
— Julian Jaynes
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You either see it or you don't
— Brian Selznick
It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.
— Renee Ahdieh
Out of Box" is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.
— Pearl Zhu
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
— Gore Vidal
Science is all metaphor.
— Timothy Leary
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.
— Craig Ferguson
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
— Isaac Marion
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
— Mason Cooley
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
— Thom Yorke
They say the eyes are the window to the soul.
— Wendy Mass
There's always hope. And oceans. Hope and oceans.
— Bryant A. Loney
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
— Jacob Bronowski
The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
— Martha N. Beck
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
— Joseph Campbell
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
— George Takei
My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.
— Ruta Sepetys
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
— Aharon Appelfeld
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
— Tabitha King
But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
— Ann Aguirre
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
I mistook you for a metaphor.
— Rachel Hartman
Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil.
— Mark T. Barnes
Charter boats are like books with no covers.
— Tania Aebi
Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.
— Rick Yancey
The daring metaphor of Jesus as bridegroom suggests that the living God seeks more than an intimate relationship with us.
— Brennan Manning
Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually.
— Stephen Richards
Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.
— Stephen King
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
— Chuck Palahniuk
You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious.-
— Janet Evanovich
In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe.
— Jason G. Miller
I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.
— Alan Bradley
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
— Gregory Bateson
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
Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.
— David Joseph Cribbin
Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.
— Jessica Brody
The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.
— Amit Kalantri
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ...
— R. Buckminster Fuller