Quotes About Metaphor

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

As time passes in Heaven, the stars do not change places, not till the day when Zig changes the complete backdrop. I tell my students this is a metaphor for life; we go along thinking nothing will be different, till the day everything suddenly changes at once.

Digo a meus alunos que isto é uma metáfora para a vida: seguimos pensando que nada será diferente, até o dia em que tudo muda repentinamente de uma vez.

Ella guided me: sometimes directly, sometimes with story and metaphor, but mostly how she lived.

Sou o colunista que se repete com um límpido impudor. Não tenho o menor escrúpulo em usar duzentas, trezentas vezes a mesma metáfora.

Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.

Man is the living soul, turning slowly into a life-giving Spirit. But you cannot tell it except in a parable or metaphor to excite the mind of man to get him to go out and prove it.

They would, as Robert Martensen describes in The Brain Takes Shape, fit the visible structure of the brain into their preferred metaphysical metaphor, arranging the organ's physical parts "so as to portray likeness in their own terms."2 Writing

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

We're an easy target for remarks about crossing the border and turning the clock back fifteen years, or a hundred. We're a state that's known for pineapples and cane toads, old bad attitudes and the brain-addling heat that comes from the Tropic of Capricorn sitting right across our middle. We're that kind of state - hot and steamy, unlovely and unloved, far too much fodder here for metaphors about festering and putrefaction.

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.

Her love was a glob of phlegm on life's high street.

Her heart was red outside and all clogged up at its centre like a ripe ball of Edam.

She shot up like one of the weeds in the barley field and grew tender breast buds.

We're like the moths," Begu said. "The priests and Uinniau and Cian are like bats. When we go back to York, we'll have to stop, lie down, for a while.

My face looked like a picture of someone else. I turned this way and that. No, more like a picture of a rock after some vandal has ripped off its decades-old layer of moss and soil, and the bare stone is revealed.

Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

In Mahayana Buddhism, the fractal nature of reality is illustrated in the Avatamsaka Sutra by the metaphor of Indra's net, a vast network of precious gems hanging over the palace of the god Indra, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it.

P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.

How, in fact, could a nose, which only yesterday was in the middle of his face, and which could not possibly walk around or drive in a carriage, suddenly turn up in a uniform!

In Rahel's song, henna was blood and blood was henna.

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.

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.