Top 901 Metaphor Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

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

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

If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

The #? knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

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

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Metaphor is embodied in language.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

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

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

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

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

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

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

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

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

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

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

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

Sports are a metaphor for life.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

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

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

I am a consummate metaphor addict.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

A metaphor is like a simile.

Science always uses metaphor.

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

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.