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Metaphor Quotes by John Green
- One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're…
- But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots…
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- You live for pretentious metaphors.
- It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
- We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
More Metaphor Quotes
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. — Alan Ball
- There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
- I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — Ray Bradbury
- Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley
- It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges
- I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter… — Mark Burnett
- 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
- God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own… — Joseph Campbell
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card