Metaphor Quotes

Science is all metaphor.

— Timothy Leary

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Science always uses metaphor.

— James Lovelock

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

— Pauli Murray

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

— Elbert Hubbard

“the road is life”

— jack kerouac

“I mistook you for a metaphor.”

— Rachel Hartman

“Its a metaphor.”

— John Green

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

— Jack Nicholson

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

— Deepak Chopra

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.

— Scott Adams

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

— Michaela DePrince

“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“Life is like a B-picture script.”

— Kirk Douglas

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

“She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad…

— Patrick Major Dallas OR

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

— Susan Sontag

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s…

— Ani DiFranco

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

— Andre Breton

A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.

— Laurie Cabot

“Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is…

— Amit Kalantri

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens…

— Larry Wall

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't…

— Robert Breault

What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your…

— Louis Aragon

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,…

— Bill Bradley

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the…

— Peter Cochrane

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the…

— Aristotle

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…

— Martin Gardner

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good…

— Mark Barrowcliffe

“If the invariable human problem with the sacred is its intangibility, its elusiveness, here all complaints are surely laid to rest. For…

— Sadhguru

The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art…

— Jay McInerney

In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has…

— Charlie Pierce

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and…

— Terry Bozzio

A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of…

— Betty Sue Flowers

We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain…

— Michael C. McMillen

Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of…

— Sam Roberts

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be…

— George Lakoff