Quotes of: Metaphors Keyword

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Jane Smiley

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Drax the Destroyer: Finger on throat means death! [kills Korath] Drax the Destroyer: Metaphor. Peter Quill: ...Sort of.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Melvin Udall: People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch.

As Good as It Gets

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Godfrey Reggio

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...

Wallace Stevens

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger

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

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Dar Williams

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.

Lost

love was never meant to be just a metaphor between the pages of poetry.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.

Joey Lawsin

It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die

Thomas Page McBee

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

Ridley Scott

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

Nouriel Roubini

Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness.

Alexandra Stoddard

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

Kelly Slater