Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war. — Jane Lynch
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. — Dar Williams
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the… — Luci Shaw
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual… — Frederick Lenz
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,… — Honore de Balzac
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us… — Joseph Epstein
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on… — Grant Morrison
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went… — N. T. Wright
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. — John Ralston Saul
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of… — Gregg Easterbrook
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to… — Dean Cain
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture… — Marshall McLuhan
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it… — Steven Pressfield
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. — Mahmoud Darwish
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's… — Terry Eagleton
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing… — Andrew Solomon
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft… — Robert Cormier
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to… — Godfrey Reggio
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find… — Annette Bening
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for… — Rob Bell

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