Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it. — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor, more like killer bees. -pg 6 — Beautiful Creatures (the Book) By Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.” — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“Standing under the shelter of a cedar tree, I stared at the fire crackling as it burned through the fallen logs and… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“I don’t, after all, know what’s wrong with him, am not even certain anything is, or that wrong isn’t just a metaphor… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
