Metaphors Quotes

254 quotes by 209 authors

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. — Faith Baldwin
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. — Alan Ball
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler
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
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
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
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
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
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
Language is memory and metaphor. — Storm Jameson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Iâ€™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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