Metaphor Quotes · Page 16

“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back…

— Franz Kafka

Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life.…

— Marc Trestman

If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away…

— Wayne Dyer

The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

— R.A. Dickey

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

— Pierre Bourdieu

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know…

— J.H. Wyman

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

— Travis Kalanick

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

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers…

— Terry McMillan

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

— Amy Purdy

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

— Kent Beck

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.…

— Hilary Mantel

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

— Stephen King

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used…

— Kurt Busiek

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we…

— James Geary

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

When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

— Drake

Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable…

— Norman Lock

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

— Tom Robbins

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

— Haruki Murakami

“it's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra”

— David Levithan

“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the…

— Jeanette Winterson

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

— Pat Buchanan