Metaphor Quotes - Page 4

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Science is all metaphor.

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

A metaphor is like a simile.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Metaphor is embodied in language.