Top Metaphor Quotes Collection

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Image of Paul Ricoeur
The dictionary contains no metaphors.
- Paul Ricoeur
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Image of Percival Everett
A metaphor cannot be paraphrased
- Percival Everett
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Image of Joseph Chilton Pearce
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Image of Robert Shaw
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.
- Robert Shaw
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Image of Seth Lloyd
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
- Seth Lloyd
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Image of R. Buckminster Fuller
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Image of Rachel Hartman
It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
- Rachel Hartman
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Image of Thomas Struth
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.
- Thomas Struth
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Image of Jordan Wolfson
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
- Jordan Wolfson
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Image of Gregory Doran
I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.
- Gregory Doran
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Image of Jeff Smith
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.
- Jeff Smith
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Image of Ray Bradbury
You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of Jacob Bronowski
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
- Jacob Bronowski
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Image of Robert Anton Wilson
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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Image of Lauren Kate
Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.
- Lauren Kate
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Image of Charles Henry Parkhurst
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Image of Mason Cooley
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Aristotle
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
- Aristotle
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of John Green
You live for pretentious metaphors.
- John Green
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Image of Aristotle
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.
- Aristotle
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Gaston Bachelard
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
- Gaston Bachelard
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Image of Steig Larsson
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?
- Steig Larsson
Collection: Metaphor