Quotes by Metaphor I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality. Eliot Spitzer metaphor reality As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. Elizabeth A. Johnson metaphor idols shows The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it. Elizabeth Edwards metaphor space boundaries A creed is an ossified metaphor. Elbert Hubbard metaphor atheism creeds Life's metaphors are God's instructions. Elizabeth Gilbert metaphor instruction My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. Emo Philips metaphor dad hands Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. Evelyn Waugh departure metaphor writing Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King strain metaphor writing There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. Fernando Pessoa metaphor real people I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. Frances Mayes metaphor speech southern The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Gaston Bachelard metaphor Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth. Geoffrey West arteries metaphor cities A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. Georg C. Lichtenberg metaphor police eye For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. George Eliot graves metaphor light What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! George Eliot metaphor results different Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. Giannina Braschi envy democratic metaphor Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. George Orwell metaphor speech use The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. Gilles Deleuze consistency metaphor real The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. Gore Vidal metaphor terror war No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Grace Paley metaphor jobs children «1234567891011»
