Quotes About Metaphor

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one's groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

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.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.