Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.
It is by metaphor that language grows.
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives. . . Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move forward with certainty, and yet move forward we must. We stumble through life, trying to find our own way, not knowing whom to listen to, whom to trust, whom to suspect, what to believe. But in that process we discover our most authentic selves.
Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me. . . I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.
Conversations. . . begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks from some place other than your own. So I'm using the word 'conversation' not only for literal talk but also as a metaphor for engagement with the experience and ideas of others. And I stress the role of the imagination here because the encounters, properly conducted, are valuable in themselves. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything, especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field. " They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
A bridge is a meeting place. . . a possibility, a metaphor.