Metaphor Quotations | Page 3

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

Science is all metaphor.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

A metaphor is like a simile.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.