Quotes About Metaphor

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.

Deep learning is a really powerful metaphor for learning about the world.

As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.

Horror is my favorite genre, but it works best for me when it's a metaphor on top of something we can all relate to.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.

I am sorry to shock you, she said. But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years.

She could have never believed in the morning that her colorless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope.

The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

What was "walking on water," if it wasn't Bible talk for surfing?

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. This may have nothing to do with the acts we have committed, or the humors we do go in and out of. It may be only the room--a cube--having no persuasive powers of its own. The room simply is. To occupy it, and find a metaphor there for memory, is our own fault.