Metaphor Quotes · Page 13

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

— Robin Williams

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

— George Elliott Clarke

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

— Marianne Faithfull

“As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for…

— Carly Simon

“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”

— Rae Armantrout

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is…

— Vivian Gornick

“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be…

— Neal Shusterman

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top…

— Christopher Jones

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with…

— Osip Mandelstam

You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.…

— Frederick Lenz

“I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It…

— Brandon Sanderson

Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or…

— Laura Riding

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter…

— Mark Burnett

Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile…

— Wesley Pruden

When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful…

— Monica Youn

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with…

— Charles Jencks

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages…

— Neil Postman

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned…

— Norman Cousins

“[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.' His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'You're a few colors shy of a…

— Blake Charlton

“Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that,…

— Orson Scott Card

“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of…

— Karl Marx

“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

“Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.”

— Ade Santi

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.”

— Niklas Torneke

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

— James Geary

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

— Vivian Gornick

“Keep to your schedule as closely as possible to stay focused on convincing yourself you have everything you desire now.”

— Mina Faraway

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.”

— Yann Martel

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new…

— Aberjhani

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

— John Cheever

“Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.”

— Nenia Campbell

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

— Scarlett Thomas

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally…

— Isabelle Huppert