Quotes About Metaphor

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.

Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.

If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir.

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?

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

I'm really small, so I think if I shrink, I'd turn into a puddle.

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

we that were wood when that wide wood was in a physical Universe playing with words bark be my limbs my hair be leaf Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver

Fire beats roses again.

De repente, lo reconozco: es un sinsajo.