Quotes About Metaphor

The trouble is that man, going back to Freud - and excuse the metaphor - heats up like a light bulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand - and this is pure science - heats up like an iron, slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. Like the steel furnaces in Vizcaya! I weighed up Fermin's thermodynamic theories.

I could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.

As I was saying. Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.

A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River.

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

By the 1840s, informal networks were well established, as was the reigning metaphor of the Underground Railroad (UGRR).

The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan.

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

Science is all metaphor.

When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.

I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

I am a consummate metaphor addict.

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.