Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be? — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.” — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
“you don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it” — Robert Stetson Shaw Copy Share Image
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the… — Peter Cochrane Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
“Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black Copy Share Image
“But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.” — Kim Culbertson Copy Share Image
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Living life in the front row is a metaphor for getting close to what makes us come alive.” — Jon Vroman Copy Share Image
“The opportunity felt too perfect to refuse. Only later did he realize it had never asked for permission.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
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![“[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_but-we-accept-irony-through-a-device-cal_949915.jpg)
