Metaphor Quotes - Page 6

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.