Metaphor Quotes

“Defeat winter, read a book.”

— Bibiana Krall

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

— Marcia Falk

“Similes are like metaphors.”

— Anonymous

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

Life is like a simile.

— Terry Carr

“Man be my metaphor’,”

— Dylan Thomas

Sports are a metaphor for life.

— Ronda Rousey

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

— Jane Lynch

“A metaphor is just a condom that keeps you from catching life!”

— Greg Van Eekhout

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Tim Vine

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

— Mason Cooley

“The horizon changes but the sun does not.”

— Joyce Rachelle

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

— Haruki Murakami

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

— Eliot Spitzer

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

— Dorianne Laux

“Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.”

— Lee Argus

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

“Hi, Whenone speaks metaphorically, wills others recognize even if the metaphor has Meyer and chord as videos?”

— Diana Kanecki

“Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.”

— Raymond Chandler

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

— Terence McKenna

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

— Ray Bradbury

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

— Edward Ruscha

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a…

— Amira Hass

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It…

— Donald Antrim

I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals.…

— Jake Halpern

“Just like backing out of the driveway… If the driveway was ten miles long, full of rocks and pits, with lethal radiation…

— Daniel Thorman

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor…

— Alberto Manguel

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself.…

— Susan Sontag

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation…

— Joseph Campbell

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me will full hands; How could I answer the child?…I do not…

— John Green

“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human…

— Umberto Eco

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have…

— Alan Lightman

Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something…

— Noah Wyle

Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are…

— Bill Bonner

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation……

— Michel de Montaigne

A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and…

— Starhawk

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or…

— Robert Cormier