Quotes by Metaphor Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war. Jane Lynch metaphor football war Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. Jeff Smith allegory myth metaphor This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change. Jeffrey K. Zeig issues metaphor adults A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor. Jeanette Winterson possibility metaphor bridges There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. Jennifer Egan metaphor way There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. John Cheever metaphor terrible alcohol We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We expect the "I" in any nonfiction text to be an autobiographical "I" when there is a history in the essay of the "I" being a persona. John D'Agata metaphor different drama I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic. John Divola metaphor sublime looks All that is transitory is but a metaphor. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe transitory metaphor When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. John Philpot Curran metaphor i-can Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. John Ralston Saul anarchy metaphor competition Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking. Jonathan Haidt metaphor guides thinking 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 metaphor bigger feels With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist. Jordan Peele nightmare metaphor horror Metaphors are the weapons of cowards. Jose Bernardo metaphor coward weapons You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green pretentious metaphor The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man Jose Ortega y Gasset metaphor power men One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. Joseph Chilton Pearce full-life metaphor capacity Censorship is the mother of metaphor. Jorge Luis Borges censorship metaphor mother Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. Jose Ortega y Gasset algebra metaphor poetry «1234567891011»
