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Metaphoric Quotes (page 2)

Mary Catherine Bateson quote: "There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't..."
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson
Tom Robbins quote: "To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar."
To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar. Tom Robbins
Robert Frost quote: "Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be..."
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. Robert Frost
I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song. David Byrne
Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted to say, as a bubble within which I'm simultaneously exposed and sealed off.... depriving me of reality, reducing me to an abstraction....[NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech] Salman Rushdie
Miley Cyrus quote: "Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little..."
Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!) Miley Cyrus
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "All that is transitory is but a metaphor."
All that is transitory is but a metaphor. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses. Martin Buber
Full many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air"A good many flowers bloom and fade away in deserted places, seen by no one. In its context in Thomas Gray's "Elegy" it is actually a metaphor for common folk who do heroic things that are never reported in the news or recorded in history. Like a precious stone unmined at the bottom of the ocean or a beautiful flower blooming in... Thomas Gray
Just because there's an end doesn't mean existance has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existance. Haruki Murakami
We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with metaphors? Writers stand still and yet vacate our homes Inside our fantasies. We are word-whores, With libidos and egos of balsa wood. We’d have sex with our books, if only we could. Sherman Alexie
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?"
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? Chuck Palahniuk
Paul Ricoeur quote: "The dictionary contains no metaphors."
The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter. Terry McMillan
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight. Jeanette Winterson

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