Metaphor Quotes

On saying one thing to mean another.

Metaphor turns up in some unexpected places here — one voice calls sports an underused metaphor for television, another zooms from a subterranean image all the way down to worms and centipedes. A theological reading even treats the devil as metaphor on one level. See Expression.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Quotes by Walter Mosley

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

Quotes by Taylor Hackford

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Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

Quotes by Ruth Bernhard

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.

Quotes by Laeta Kalogridis

Sports is a terrific metaphor that's hardly been touched on TV.

Quotes by Ken Howard

The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.

Quotes by Katherine Dunn

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Quotes by John Ralston Saul

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

Quotes by John Philpot Curran

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

Quotes by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Quotes by James Geary

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Quotes by James Geary

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Quotes by Dennis Potter

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

Quotes by Cody Fern

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Whether the subject is poetry, sport, or theology, these quotes agree that metaphor does real work, not just decoration. Related pages: Depth and Identity.