Metaphor Quotations | Page 2

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through, ... The grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean ù once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own (world) we won't be able to get help.

The metaphor is that we're filling someone's bowl - and stomach - with the funds gathered from this event.

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

The metaphor that should be looked for was in Cheney not following the rules, getting by without shooting the way you're supposed to. You are supposed to shoot the bird, not your friend.

That metaphor has just gotten completely overloaded. They just didn't know it was there.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

Cannonball. I guess it's a train metaphor for U.S. history.

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

Good ride, cowboy. What a good metaphor for life.

It's a metaphor for our culture. This is where we get a lot of images we use in popular culture.

It's a metaphor for time-based, often highly reductive, early video that kind of puts you to sleep, ... You are supposed to drift off with him. It's a very funny thing. As he is falling asleep, the lights of the city are beginning to get brighter. Things run rather counter.

It's certainly getting grown-ups like you talking about Barbie, and the metaphor that they are using reflects the majority of people's fascination with celebrity.

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.

The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with stories where people's roles are flipped on their heads, be it the Wall Street guy, the techno guy, etc. All of those things are only successful when there are people and money around.

The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it,

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

The cider house rules are the metaphor for those rules that you feel you have to oppose because you feel they don't make sense to you.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

The Iraq war is a metaphor for other issues. It's a lot more than just the troops on the ground in Iraq.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

That request is still active with the court and the ball is now in the judge's -- well, that's kind of a bad metaphor -- but the judge has the responsibility to make a decision.

This must be I guess the most extreme form of unintended consequence, but it seemed to me a great metaphor for things that happen all the time.

It's extremely difficult to put Anderson in a box and explain him definitely in a one hour film and I guess this room is a metaphor for that.

There's beginning to be some traction. If you use the metaphor of the forest at night, there's a lot of small animals rustling around in the leaves.

I clawed the stuff out bit by painful, pink bit, ... until my knife was sunk into the leg bone up past the hilt. It made dreadful scraping noises - I felt like I could feel it in the center of my bones. A passing metaphor to explorers of the deep wilds of Africa does not seem out of place here - there was a definite Heart of Darkness quality to this. How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things.

Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

The list is a metaphor for troubled national parks all across the nation, ... Some of our national parks are becoming a national disgrace.

Science always uses metaphor.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.