Quotes About Metaphor

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

Love is like falconry, he said. Don't you think that's true, Cleveland? Never say love is like anything. said Cleveland. It isn't.

I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.

Like our padded cell? He poked the insulated walls. It's like living in a vagina.

He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.

I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?

You might say that, while going to work on the business, people begin to realize that it is a powerful metaphor for going to work on their lives.

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

Because metaphors are vivid and memorable, and because they are not readily subjected to critical analysis, they can have considerable impact on human judgment even when they are inappropriate, useless, or misleading," said Amos. "They replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

The metaphor that Romer used to describe the economy to noneconomists was of a well-stocked kitchen waiting for a brilliant chef to exploit it. Everyone in the kitchen starts with more or less the same ingredients, the metaphor ran, but not everyone produces good food. And only a very few people who wander into the kitchen find entirely new ways to combine old ingredients into delightfully tasty recipes. These people were the wealth creators.

Blood a necklace on me all my life.

I joked to my wife as she drove me home that I felt as if I had been repeatedly sucked into the asshole of God.

Lawns, I am convinced, are a symptom of, and a metaphor for, our skewed relationship to the land. They teach us that, with the help of petrochemicals and technology, we can bend nature to our will. Lawns stoke our hubris with regard to the land.

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.