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Metaphors Quotes by Dennis Potter
- Metaphor is embodied in language.
- The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
More Metaphors Quotes
- 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… — Lord Byron
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche