Metaphor Quotes · Page 21

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

— Mason Cooley

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the…

— Tabitha King

“Each of us carries his Mexico and his United States within him, a dark and bloody frontier we dare to cross only…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.”

— Robert Frost

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

— Anonymous

“How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.”

— Mike Nichols

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of…

— Clark Gregg

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in…

— Luci Shaw

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it…

— Ihab Hassan

“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it…

— Sol Luckman

“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down…

— Dan Chaon

Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in…

— Craig Blomberg

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in…

— Denis Donoghue

Which is the woman, which the child? The joyous laugh that opens doors, steals sugared moments from the shelf? Or the dreamer…

— Katie Louchheim

“After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that…

— Willa Cather

I was working with Toby Gad, who spent a lot of time in India. There's a sitar [in "Body Shop"] and the…

— Madonna Ciccone

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because…

— Anonymous

“Angels and demons, heaven and hell, God, morality, law and language. It’s all metaphor. Scaffolding to handle the areas where base reality…

— Richard K. Morgan

“I've always engaged with the heart as a metaphor: a desire, a thing to survive, to heal from or shoot for. Now…

— Megan Stielstra

“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to…

— N.D. Wilson

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the…

— Johan Huizinga

“The nature of atheism merits clarification on two further points which involve less common ideas about theism. The first involves the idea…

— Austin Cline

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

— Lydia Davis

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

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way…

— Agustin Gomez-Arcos

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Terence McKenna

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

“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

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

— Dorianne Laux

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

— Robert Redford

“Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so.”

— William Bronk

“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.”

— Emily Giffin

“But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.”

— Haruki Murakamirakami

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

— Samuel Johnson