Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

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