Quotes About Metaphor

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

What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

What's the big deal? Snow's just rain that's been left out in the cold.

A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void. One will cross to the other side. The other will not return. For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And

But happiness is not a potato.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

I used to always say, 'Cheetahs don't stretch.' And I look at myself as a cheetah.

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

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

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.

For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.

Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

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.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.