Best Metaphor Quotations
561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors
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The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves…
— Venerable Bede
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If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
— Roger Zelazny
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The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to…
— William Rehnquist
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but…
— Maurice Sendak
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end…
— Aharon Appelfeld
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
— Aharon Appelfeld
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
— Gayle Forman
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As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community…
— Wes Jackson
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To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is…
— Unknown Author
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But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't…
— Donald Antrim
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Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative…
— Pat Pattison
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A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.
— James Geary
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This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million…
— Adam Gollner
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The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.
— Larry Dossey
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I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
— Eliot Spitzer
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Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
— Bill Griffith
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In…
— Timothy Leary
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Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also…
— Neil Peart
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Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and…
— Sharon Olds
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Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
— Immortal Technique
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For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it…
— Bill Viola
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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
— C.S. Lewis
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of…
— Damon Albarn
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Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
— Gregory Bateson
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such…
— John Searle
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