Metaphor Quotes - page 3

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. (Seth Grahame-Smith)
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. View quote
Tabitha King
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor. View quote
Walter Hill
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings. View quote
Henry Cloud
You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. - Tiny Cooper. View quote
David Levithan
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. View quote
Jane Smiley
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen. View quote
Kris Carr
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity. View quote
Vera Wang
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. View quote
Sharon Olds
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities. View quote
Alexandra Cassavetes
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. (Amy Waldman)
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. View quote
Aharon Appelfeld
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. View quote
Bill Griffith
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life. View quote
Frank Grillo
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation. View quote
Godfrey Reggio
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more. View quote
Jody Watley
I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general. View quote
Olivier Dahan
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it. View quote
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook. View quote
Stephen Dobyns
Language is memory and metaphor. View quote
Storm Jameson
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey. (Swoosie Kurtz)
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. View quote
Taylor Hackford
America has a deeply confused image of itself that is in perpetual tension. We are a nation that takes pride in our ethnic diversity, recognizing its importance in shaping our society and in adding richness to its existence. Yet, we simultaneously insist that we can and must function and live in a race and color-blind way that ignore these very differences that in other contexts we laud. That tension between "the melting pot and the salad bowl" – a recently popular metaphor used to described New York's diversity – is being hotly debated today in national discussions about affirmative action. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Long after the fact, it occurred to me that this was a metaphor for life- blisters come before calluses, vulnerability before maturity- but not even the thickest of skins could have spared us the lash of Daddy's tongue. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Metaphor is embodied in language. View quote
Dennis Potter