Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually… — Saul Bass
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. — Robert McKee
Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected… — Marc Trestman
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… — George Orwell
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it… — Rick DeMarinis
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. — Peter Hammill
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. — Angela Ruggiero
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the… — Carrie P Snow
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets… — C.D. Payne
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards… — Unknown Author
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on… — Theodore Dalrymple
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the… — R. S. Thomas
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community… — Amy Waldman
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must… — Robert Grudin
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think… — George Lakoff
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. — Edward Tufte
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Metaphor is embodied in language. — Dennis Potter
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. — Robert Breault
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making… — Rumi
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has… — John Wain
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy… — Jennifer Beals
Censorship is the mother of metaphor. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary… — Rick Warren

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