Top 901 Metaphor Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.
It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with 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.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.
What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!
My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.
Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.
To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
