Metaphor Quotes

You might laugh because every time I sign my name I put a gold star after it, but its a metaphor, and metaphors are important. My gold stars a metaphor for me being a star. - Rachel Berry

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. - Robert Redford

Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you... - Gerard Way

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. - Florence King

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. - Maimonides

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides. - Deborah Tannen

When I'm sitting with Anna, I'm really sitting with Anna. Ain't a metaphor punchline, I'm really sitting with Anna. - Nicki Minaj

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. - John Philpot Curran

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities. - John Fowles