Metaphor Quotes · Page 4

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

— Tom Robbins

“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.”

— David Joseph Cribbin

“One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.”

— Em Bailey

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

— Rachel Hartman

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

— Cody Fern

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

— Pat Buchanan

“Everything's a bad metaphor for sex.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A…

— John Green

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

— Charlie Kaufman

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

— Jacob Bronowski

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

— George McWhirter

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

— Boris Yeltsin

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

— Gabrielle Roth

“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

— Milan Kundera

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

— Erin McKean

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor…

— Julian Barnes

I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements…

— Philip Kitcher

“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet…

— Herbie Hancock

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding…

— Vera Wang

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of…

— J. B. Smoove

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is…

— Anne Rice

“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor…

— Marshall McLuhan

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no…

— Jared Diamond

Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage…

— Tony Rothman

I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words,…

— Christopher Langan

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they…

— Jonathan Lethem

“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret…

— John O'Hara

“But irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you…

— Haruki Murakami

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights…

— Diane Frolov

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

— John Ralston Saul

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

I never met her before but I think I like her like a metaphor.

— Lupe Fiasco

“... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.”

— Terry Pratchett

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

— William Carlos Williams

“If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.”

— Dale Pendell

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

— Aristotle

“Time is the moving image of eternity.”

— Plato