Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a… — Dee Dee Myers
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. — Jack Nicholson
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the… — Octavio Paz
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying… — Steven Pinker
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. — Robert Redford
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than… — Robert Redford
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly… — Robert Redford
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. — Anne Rice
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and… — Salman Rushdie
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are… — Marjane Satrapi
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans… — Rob Sheffield
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a… — Jane Smiley
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a… — Anna Deavere Smith
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot… — J. Michael Straczynski
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and… — Paul Valery
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. — Tim Vine
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a… — Vera Wang
I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express… — Robert Winston
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. — Jeanette Winterson
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet.… — Neill Blomkamp
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where… — Neill Blomkamp
Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not… — Neill Blomkamp

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