Best Metaphorical Sayings
60 Metaphorical quotes by 56 unique authors
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In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing…
— Louis de Bernieres
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Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate…
— Joseph Campbell
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What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of…
— Naomi Klein
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What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world…
— John Green
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
— Iain McGilchrist
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My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
— Alice Walker
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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
— Thomas Harrison
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The English idiom don't judge a book by its cover is a metaphorical phrase which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth or value of something,…
— Unknown Author
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I took some time off after Miami Vice, for the first time in six or seven years. I got to step back and have a…
— Colin Farrell
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Somewhat metaphorical on that maybe tip/I leave myself guessin until the end like playin CLUE with 6 weapons left
— C-DASH
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