Metaphor Quotes · Page 15

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

— Rae Armantrout

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

— Warren G. Bennis

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Walker Percy

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

— Nadine Gordimer

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame…

— Amanda Palmer

“She was used to living her life from a distance, watching herself from the back row as she mouthed someone else’s lines…

— Samantha Sotto Yambao

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

— Olivier Dahan

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and…

— Walter Brueggemann

“The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation…

— José Ortega y Gasset

“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land…

— Bruce-Novoa

I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for…

— Karen Walker

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was…

— Larry David

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What…

— Godfrey Reggio

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and…

— Drew Barrymore

“I am knee deep in sea water now, feeling the energy of the tidal waves as they roll inwards towards the shore.…

— Susan L. Marshall

“Slowly, I began to relearn something I’d once grasped but had lost sight of: that emotion—that central element of fiction—derives not from…

— Andrea Barrett

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is…

— Margaret Atwood

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?…

— Steven Pressfield

“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you…

— John Green

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of…

— Carl Sagan

“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“But that’s precisely what you’re doing. Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it’s because you…

— Scott Lynch

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long…

— Paulo Coelho

“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.”

— Sarah Blake

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

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

— Anonymous

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

— Tift Merritt

“Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.”

— Lloyd Alexander

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

— Rick Yancey

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Jennifer Egan

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

— Alice Mattison

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

— Robert Breault

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

— Walter Benjamin

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

— Jeff Smith

“unless you're the lead dog the view never changes... mercy out does justice every time: always find your way back home/”

— Bob Mitchley