Metaphor Quotes - Page 8

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We expect the "I" in any nonfiction text to be an autobiographical "I" when there is a history in the essay of the "I" being a persona.

This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut."

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.