Top 901 Metaphor Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.
The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.
When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.
Horror is my favorite genre, but it works best for me when it's a metaphor on top of something we can all relate to.
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.
Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.
I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?
It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
Sports is a terrific metaphor that's hardly been touched on TV.
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.
