Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself… — William James
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started… — William Golding
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks… — Rajneesh
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes… — Unknown Author
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in… — Peter Cochrane
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor. — Simone Weil
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… — John Green
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance… — Unknown Author
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind… — Eugene H. Peterson
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. — Walker Percy
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius,… — Aristotle
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and… — Robert Adams
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness. — George Will
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths,… — David Perkins
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale.… — Maude Barlow
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be… — Daniel Ellsberg
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Unknown Author
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out. — Unknown Author
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain… — Richard Bach

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