Metaphors Quotes

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

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.

Since (Pink Floyd`s) The Wall, this has never been done. A third of the movie is CGI, a third of the movie is a documentary and a third of it is a love story. And it basically tells the story of the breakup of one of the biggest bands in the world and the creation of the world`s greatest rock band, ... It`s a documentary about the past year of my life. But the whole thing is done with metaphors and analogies of World War II. Because World War II was good versus evil, the grand sense of purpose, and seeing as though I started this new part of my life specifically for my family, I felt that it would be an appropriate reference point rather than using modern images.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I`m not being high-falutin` about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

Bridges are metaphors for everything in life, ... The bridge is not just about getting back and forth between north and south. The bridge is about connecting our communities.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren`t words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone`s counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We`re the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don`t think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn`t even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don`t know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.