Metaphor Quotes · Page 17

“Metaphor themes reside below surface metaphors, but are not completely buried in our unconscious.”

— Anonymous

“Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.”

— William Shakespeare

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

— Amanda Peet

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

— Kurt Busiek

“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.”

— Catherine Lacey

I think the best horror is often a metaphor or keys into people's real life paranoia.

— Ti West

“The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.”

— Adam Foulds

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

— Richard Rohr

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

— Bill Bradley

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our…

— Avi Arad

“But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else…

— Mackenzie Herbert

I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for…

— C.P. Snow

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the…

— Robert Grudin

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow…

— Marion Woodman

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your…

— Gabrielle Roth

“Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that the metaphor “is the fertile soil from which all language is born, and literal language is the…

— David Kord Murray

Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or…

— Tom Brevoort

“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though…

— James Howell

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may…

— Walter Savage Landor

I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves…

— David Biespiel

“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a…

— Mark Johnson

I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ…

— Jane Fonda

“I buckle my sword sheath to my waist and head for the trees. “If you’re coming, hurry up.” They glance at each…

— Elizabeth May

When I read Matt Ruff's book, that was my first encounter with learning about sundown towns, and I was like 'What?' Like,…

— Misha Green

“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.”

— M. Thomas Gammarino

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

— Gore Vidal

Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor, more like killer bees. -pg 6

— Beautiful Creatures (the Book) By Kami Garcia

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

— Kent Beck

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

— Robert Shaw

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Emily Giffin

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Haruki Murakamirakami

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

— Robert Genn

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Gabrielle Roth

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

— Boris Yeltsin

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

— Erin McKean