“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.”
Walter Hill
“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
Joseph Campbell
“Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...”
Gerard Way
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins
“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.”
Milan Kundera
