Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by… — William Kentridge
They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor. — Ani DiFranco
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with… — Ishmael Reed
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can… — Daria Halprin
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human… — Morton Feldman
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a… — Bruce Dickinson
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey… — Phil Cousineau
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, — Gerald Edelman
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull
The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The… — James Taranto
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find… — Madonna Ciccone
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is… — Roni Horn
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now… — Alberto Manguel
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes… — Carl Sagan
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect… — Barbra Streisand
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and… — Julian Barnes
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and… — Jonathan Raban

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