Metaphor Quotes - Page 5

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.