(116 quotes found)
“Science is all metaphor.”
Timothy Leary
“The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole thing's just about life and death.”
Zakk Wylde
“There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck. I can call up memories of both, if I work at it. The chilly breeze is invariably going to be the more pleasant memory.”
Steven Brust
“metaphorical sloppy seconds.”
Stephen Colbert
“You know me. Hostility makes me shrink up like a... [pauses] I can't think of a non-sexual metaphor.”
Dr. Gregory House
“The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.”
Carl N. Degler
“If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.”
Dan Barker
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.”
David McCord
“A world ends when its metaphor has died”
Archibald MacLeish
