Quotes About Metaphor

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once. One never need be afraid of catching it a second time.

O amor é como o sarampo, todos sofremos com ele um dia.

As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.

has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains?

Dear Algebra, Stop asking us to find your X. She's not coming back

I had expected the turnip metaphor to go over better, but it seems not everyone appreciates a clever philosophically grounded root vegetable reference.

What does a word mean? And a life? In the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.

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

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job

I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

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.

Death smells like birthday cake.