METAPHOR QUOTES

• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• 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.
  ~ Godfrey Reggio ~
• 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.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• 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.
  ~ Paul Valery ~
• I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
  ~ Jane Smiley ~
• Science always uses metaphor.
  ~ James Lovelock ~
• Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
  ~ John Le Carre ~
• Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
  ~ John Le Carre ~
• Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
  ~ John Le Carre ~
• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
  ~ Milan Kundera ~
• A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
  ~ Norman Cousins ~
• A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
  ~ Norman Cousins ~
• A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
  ~ Robert Morgan ~
• We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
  ~ Jane Fonda ~
• Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
  ~ Dee Dee Myers ~