Quotes of: Metaphors Keyword

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Robert Redford

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

John Berger

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Brandi L. Bates

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me will full hands; How could I answer the child?......I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. There was the hope Dr. ...

Paper Towns

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Chaos: Making a New Science

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

The Edible Woman

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

Father Crow and Other Poems

Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.

Beyond All Dreams

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

Bob Peterson

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

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Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Reaper Man

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Middlemarch

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

Selected Poems

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

A smile is like a simile, if you have a mouth like a metaphor. That would make for like the best kiss ever.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I threw out my sausage, and replaced it with a healthier penis metaphor, like a cucumber.

This Book Has No Title

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

Rick Perlstein

It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

The Four Stages of Cruelty: A Novel

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Ray Bradbury