Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the… — Dwight Yoakam
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. — Jack Schwartz
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on… — David Mitchell
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex.… — Melissa de la Cruz
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside… — Naomi Shihab Nye
A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good. — Scott Adams
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing… — Mayma
Sir Eric watches, Awe-struck, As he, we, the Phoenix, Escaping the flames, Reborn, Rises into the sky. A arrow, Perfect shot, And the Phoenix, Falls,… — Eric Nickel
Goin fa tha gold but I'm comin for ya soul= call me reaper wit a consequential metaphor sickel--- go go gadget missles====choppers rip thru tissues---… — Dru Stone
I'm a metaphor for all of the things I couldn't say — Ron Pope
Shoot me a text or inbox to load weapon — Raghib Clitso
Give A Man A Mask And He Will Reveal His True Self. — NizamShahbaaz
Don't Be Afraid Of Wolf Leading Pack Of Sheeps, Be Afraid Of A Sheep Leading The Pack Of Wolfs. — FazeelAhmed
Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor. — Jeremy Limn
Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together. — Thomas Harrison
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our… — Kenny Loggins
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the… — John Williams
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an… — Unknown Author
When raindrops hit the tin roof its crazy. Thats a metaphor, did I lose ya baby? — Drake
I never met her before but I think I like her like a metaphor. — Lupe Fiasco
This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera
Grey clouds up above man, Metaphor to my life man, Still I feel my...heart stronger then its ever been, Strong will to my journey ends, — Kid Cudi
It's a metaphor. But that actually happened. -White Goodman — Dodgeball
The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole… — Zakk Wylde

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