Quotes About Metaphor

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...

Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.

And on the Tree of Life,The middle tree and highest there that grew,Sat like a cormorant.

I love you? Yes, I love you. Like saying I have cancer.

Jimmy: You'll end up like one of those chocolate merengues my wife is so fond of [Alison starts banging jars]...sweet and sticky on the outside, and sink your teeth in it [savouring every word]-inside, all white, messy and disgusting. [offering teapot sweetly to Helena] Milk?

Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it's like powder in the shell.

In a normal literal utterance of each of these sentences, each verb has a constant meaning. There is no lexical ambiguity or metaphorical usage involved. But in each case the same verb will determine different truth conditions or conditions of satisfaction generally, because what counts as cutting or growing will vary with the context. If

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

Nuts don't come in bunches. Only grapes do.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

An intermediate case is that of a name used analogically or metaphorically; that is, a name which is predicated of two things, not univocally, or exactly in the same signification, but in significations somewhat similar, and which being derived one from the other, one of them may be considered the primary, and the other a secondary signification.

And one of the commonest forms of fallacious reasoning arising from ambiguity, is that of arguing from a metaphorical expression as if it were literal; that is, as if a word, when applied metaphorically, were the same name as when taken in its original sense: which will be seen more particularly in its place.

One suspects he disdained the traditional preparations of drawing and modeling in favor of cutting straight into the marble containing the captive soul yearning for release. The result is a kind of metaphor perhaps unconscious for the struggle of artistic creation. The only way Michelangelo could show us this was to leave the figure half-embedded in the rock.

In theoretical, metaphorical terms, the idea I began to explore was this one: that teaching is nothing like the art of painting, where, by the addition of material to a surface, an image is synthetically produced, but more like the art of sculpture, where, by the subtraction of material, an image already locked in the stone is enabled to emerge. It is a crucial distinction.

Some of her turned to mist, and crept out the pores of her skin.

I was thinking the other day that his life reminds me of throwing a piece of bread into a stream and watching a whole flock of little minnows come up and start nibbling at it.

Death wears a big hat.

Encara que sabem que el tresor dels llibres mai no és real i no és essencial per sobreviure, tots els lectors busquem als llibres la metàfora de la felicitat. Aunque sabemos que el tesoro de los libros nunca es real y no es esencial para sobrevivir, todos los lectores buscamos en los libros la metáfora de la felicidad

Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

...I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow...

I am not a man, but a cloud in trousers.

Religions emerged too early in human evolution — they set up symbols that people took literally, and they're as dead as a line of totem poles. Religions should have come later, when the human race begins to near its end.

From the moment we met, I was a butterfly that flew into that space that was his soul, a room where the light had begun to dim.

What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket?