Metaphors Quotes
254 quotes by 209 authors
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
— Diane Ackerman
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
— Alan Ball
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
— Bill Bradley
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
— Lord Byron
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them…
— Joseph Campbell
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
— Orson Scott Card
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
— David Allan Coe
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Language is memory and metaphor.
— Storm Jameson
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Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
— William James
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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in…
— Peter Cochrane
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Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your…
— Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius,…
— Aristotle
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Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just…
— Brent Smith
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I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
— Gregory Crewdson
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