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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
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
— Phillip Adams
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
— Marianne Faithfull
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
— Marshall McLuhan
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
Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.
— Rene Magritte
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
And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.
— Alexandra Kleeman
...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
— Rebecca Solnit
Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.
— Os Guinness
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
— Dorianne Laux
Metaphor is embodied in language.
— Dennis Potter
I feel as much of a stud as ... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
— Dan Wakefield
My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
— Rebecca Stead
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
— Peter Hammill
The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.
— Graham Joyce
We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
— Agustin Gomez-Arcos
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
— Naguib Mahfouz
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
— Harrison Ford
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
— Siri Hustvedt
Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.
— Richard Kadrey
A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint. — David Rakoff
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
The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.
— Saul Bellow
Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.
— Rebecca Scherm
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
Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.-Vergere — Matthew Woodring Stover
Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
— Neil Postman
Everything in life is a metaphor.
— Haruki Murakami
It's comforting to me," he added, "that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.
— Keith Hollihan
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
— Robert McKee
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
— Jordan Wolfson
You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.
— James S.A. Corey
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
— Nadine Gordimer
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
— Mother Teresa
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
— Isaac Marion
Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).
— Ally Carter
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
— Terry Pratchett
These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;
— Robert Macfarlane
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
— James Geary
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
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
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 starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
— George Takei
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
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
— George Eliot
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
— James Russell Lowell
Sometimes, child, we die in metaphor.
— Kiana Davenport
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.
— Maggie Stiefvater
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
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
Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
— Peter Cochrane
I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
— Mark Nepo
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
— Bernard Malamud
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
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
— Anne Carson
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
— Jack Nicholson
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.
— Haruki Murakami
I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.
— Haruki Murakami