Metaphor Quotes - Page 7

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured and jailed. I always used metaphors that could be interpreted in more than one way. Maybe this style protected me.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe in autonomy. And in the end, perhaps that idea of interconnectedness is a moral position.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.