Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new… — Gabrielle Roth
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career.… — Steven Pressfield
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line… — Walter Brueggemann
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything… — Gabrielle Roth
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired… — Neil Postman
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M H Abrams
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. — Thomas Carlyle
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. — Twyla Tharp
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too,… — Nelson Mandela
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — Haruki Murakami
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. — Deborah Copaken
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession… — Julian Jaynes
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it… — Richard Dawkins
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a… — Grant Morrison
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns… — Judy Cannato
A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner… — Mason Jennings
The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go. — R.A. Dickey
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the… — Murray Rothbard
This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running… — Wayne Dyer
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner

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