Best Metaphorical Quotes
60 Metaphorical quotes by 56 unique authors
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The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.
— Russell Brand
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Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to…
— Alison Levine
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Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
— David S. Goyer
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In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of…
— Layne Redmond
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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
— Joseph Campbell
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Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet,…
— Neil Postman
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Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance.…
— Julian Baggini
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand,…
— Jim Butcher
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All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
— Umberto Eco
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And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
— Owen Barfield
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I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live,…
— Matthew Healy
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Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's…
— Ellie Goulding
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If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar…
— Steven Pinker
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Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.
— Stephen Colbert
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I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of…
— Aberjhani
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I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in…
— David Byrne
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A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
— Eoin Colfer
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I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going…
— Jandy Nelson
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Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough…
— Alyson Noel
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There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried…
— Tana French
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If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.
— Peter Watts
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Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
— Dan Brown
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