Quotes of: Metaphors Keyword

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Richard Dawkins

2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.

LaToya London

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Robert Redford

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Kafka on the Shore

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Isaiah Berlin

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Steven Pinker

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

Tift Merritt

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Florence King

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

Dwight Yoakam

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

Peter Hammill

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Alan Ball

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Alice Walker

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

The Indigo Spell

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

Seraphina

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

Peter Dinklage

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually.

Stephen Richards

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Trey Gowdy

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Richard Louv