Metaphor Quotes · Page 5

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

It is by metaphor that language grows.

— Julian Jaynes

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

— Robert McKee

“Charter boats are like books with no covers.”

— Tania Aebi

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens

“It didn’t take him all at once. That would have been easier.”

— Valon G

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

— Kelly Corrigan

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

— Anonymous

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

— Tift Merritt

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

— Rick Yancey

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.”

— Lloyd Alexander

“Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.”

— Kami Garcia

“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact…

— Claire Oshetsky

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover…

— Norman Mailer

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,…

— George Henry Lewes

“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was…

— Olivia Sudjic

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do.…

— Ashley Judd

“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor…

— Victor Hugo

“CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that…

— Joseph Campbell

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll…

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through…

— Alexander Weinstein

“In the time we spend reeling in confusion, grasping at straws trying to piece our egos together, we forget to acknowledge some…

— Brianna Wiest

“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for…

— John Green

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a…

— Neill Blomkamp

'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and…

— Andy Summers

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

“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

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

— Anonymous

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

— James Geary

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

— Travis Kalanick

“The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.”

— Marc Cameron

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

— William H. Macy

“Tomorrow is but a metaphor to a door that may never open.”

— Colette Parrino

“HOW TEARABLE A PAPER AIRPLANE THAT CANNOT FLY”

— Lynn Byk

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

— Mark Burnett