Metaphor Quotes

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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

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

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

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

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

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

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

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.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

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

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

It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

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

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

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

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

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.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Science always uses metaphor.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.