Metaphor Quotes - Page 2

It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

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

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

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

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

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 coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

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

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

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

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.

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.

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

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

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

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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