Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is. — Stephen Colbert
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what… — China Mieville
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. — Osip Mandelstam
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have… — Milan Kundera
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? — Chuck Palahniuk
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor). — Ally Carter
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. — Joseph Campbell
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example:… — Jorge Luis Borges
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! — George Eliot
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get… — David Levithan
(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've… — Ray Bradbury
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It… — Karen Marie Moning
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor. — Hugh Laurie
Come on! Don't hold back," Christian said. "I'm not, " Lissa protested. "You are too! I've seen you knock on a door harder than you're… — Richelle Mead
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and… — Haruki Murakami
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a… — Tina Fey
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Kami Garcia
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating… — David Mitchell
There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly.… — Howard Schultz
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. — Jennifer Egan
Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other. — Lauren Kate
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could… — Jared Diamond

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