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Metaphors convince at once or not at all. — Mason Cooley

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head. — Ray Bradbury

Time is the moving image of eternity. — Plato

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

Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom — Maddy Kobar

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

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

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. — Joseph Campbell

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

I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. — Milan Kundera

I metaphor for sex, but she slapped my face and walked away when I asked. — Stephen King

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

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 — Nick Hornby

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

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war. — Jane Lynch

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

Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. — J.R. Ward

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

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. — Margaret Atwood

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

He disapproved of the metaphor: he wanted to tell her that one shouldn't compare one's personal unhappiness to the most horrible crime in history. — Brian Morton

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a view that reminds you of you.
This is a metaphor you had nothing to do with. — Kris Kidd

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

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle) — Ani DiFranco

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

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water. — Joe Hill

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

Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. — Robert Frost

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

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

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson. — Victor Hugo

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. — Aharon Appelfeld

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it — James Gleick

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

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. — Max Black

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

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator. — Eula Biss

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

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots. — Robert Jordan

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