Quotes About Metaphor

Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Everybody says, 'I want to change,' but they're not willing to pay the price of it. That was the metaphor of 'Life's Golden Ticket'... Life is some kind of a ride, and if you want that ride to be exhilarating and amazing, you've got to pay to get in. And the price is a willingness to change above and beyond what most people will do.

I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

For me, a theme that's always circling around in my head - which is why I love the horror genre - is what we're ready to do for metaphorical and physical survival.

The doctrine of Original sin, which is contained in the story of Genesis – one of the most beautiful concentrated metaphors in existence – is about the way we human beings fall from treating each other as subjects to treating each other as objects. Love, respect and forgiveness come from that. When we treat each other as objects, then we get the concentration camps.

There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

Analogies are like lies.

To diagnose a system or yourself while in the midst of action requires the ability to achieve some distance from those on-the-ground events. We use the metaphor of "getting on the balcony" above the "dance floor" to depict what it means to gain the distanced perspective you need to see what is really happening.

If you ask me, flowers are like men … The bigger the dumber!

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

Emily Dickinson would repeatedly draw on volcanic eruptions as metaphors for poetic expression.

Before I came to the city I cut off my hair. It was the first of many fatally symbolic gestures.

A cabeça de Justiniano Vilela, - se se pode chamar cabeça a uma jaca metida numa gravata de cinco voltas, - era um exemplo da prodigalidade da natureza quando quer fazer cabeças grandes.

The rain is raining all around," Uncle Douglas quoted, "It rains on both the just and the unjust fellow. But more, it seems on the just than on the unjust, For the unjust hath the just's umbrella.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

I was the daughter of my father's wife. I spoke in a trembly voice. I became pale, ill, and more thin. I let myself become a wounded animal. I let the hunter come to me and turn me into a tiger ghost. I willingly gave up my chi , the spirit that caused me so much pain. Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

Auntie had a tongue like hungry scissors eating silk cloth.

The best metaphors appear unexpectedly out of the deep blue by means of intuition and my infatuation with nuance.

I kill one realistic dragon a day, and unfortunately the meat is too tough to eat or we could save money on steak.