Metaphor Quotes
561 quotes by 449 authors
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
— Margaret Atwood
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
— Alan Ball
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
— John Berger
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
— Ray Bradbury
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
— Bill Bradley
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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
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I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He…
— Mark Burnett
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For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me,…
— Jason Aldean
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
— Joseph Campbell
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them…
— Joseph Campbell
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
— Orson Scott Card
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There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you…
— Kris Carr
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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live…
— John le Carre
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;…
— Edward Gargan
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?
— K.K. Raghava
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Language is memory and metaphor.
— Storm Jameson
Who Wrote These Metaphor Quotes
449 authors contributed a total of 561 Metaphor Quotes, led by these top contributors: