Quotes by Metaphor 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 critiquemodernmetaphor All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Gilbert K. Chesterton slangmetaphorliterature Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom Gustave Flaubert boredommetaphor Everything in life is a metaphor. Haruki Murakami metaphorlife-is But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me. Haruki Murakami metaphorhelping [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Haruki Murakami ironymetaphoraccepting Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. Friedrich Nietzsche metaphoranimalmen The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself. Friedrich Nietzsche instantmetaphormen Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. I. A. Richards metaphoricmetaphorlanguage I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes. Haruki Murakami metaphorsymbolismdanger The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. Isaiah Berlin chainsmetaphorfundamentals We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. J. T. Walsh metaphormaterials People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. Jack Nicholson metaphorspeakpeople The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry. Jacob Bronowski symbolsmetaphor A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up. James Geary similesmilemetaphor We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist. James Gleick metaphorflowthinking I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles. James Horner doctorsmetaphorart Science always uses metaphor. James Lovelock metaphoruse William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut." James M Strock metaphorcuttingdecision The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. Jan Struther gardeningmetaphorworst«1234567891011»
