Metaphor Quotes

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

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.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

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

Sports are a metaphor for life.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

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

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

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

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

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

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

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

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

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.

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.