Top 37 Metaphoric Quotes
#1. There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.
Philip K. Dick
#2. When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
Marilynne Robinson
#3. Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
Sigmar Polke
#4. What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.
Bob Samples
#5. Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.
Haruki Murakami
#6. We are all but symbols of some greater thing - totems of ourselves
subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.
S. Kelley Harrell
#8. I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.
Keren Ann
#9. Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
Bernard Malamud
#10. If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are invited to look at Fred and his world as some sort of iconic stand-in for everyday life, rather than as an extension from it. By
Brian Attebery
#11. Looking through a metaphoric lens, we are the riverbank, and the water flowing through us is emotion.
Deborah Sandella
#12. Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
Victor Hugo
#13. B," Holly continued to list, ignoring her. "The way he's always angled to where you are. Like he's a big arrow, pointing at you all the time. And I mean that in a metaphoric, romantic way, not like, you know, a penis.
Erin Lawless
#14. Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
Susan Minot
#15. The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.
J.M. Coetzee
#16. A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Robert Morgan
#17. Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
I. A. Richards
#18. Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch
#19. Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
Chester Brown
#20. Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt at communication appropriate. Celebrate the whole person.
Bob Samples
#21. The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.
Bob Samples
#22. Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.
Anne Rice
#23. Where's Rehvenge?" "I'm right here.
J.R. Ward
#24. Mysteries like these repeating cycles make it very interesting to be a theoretical physicist: Nature gives us such wonderful puzzles! Why does She repeat the electron at 206 times and 3,640 times its mass?
Richard Feynman
#25. It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.
Dylan McDermott
#26. You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Steve Prefontaine
#27. It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.
Doug E. Fresh
#28. Never stop dreaming of moonbeams and fairy dust, shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens, a happier life and a better world.
James Gormley
#29. The four generational learning styles are Traditionalists Baby Boomers Generations X Generations Y or Millennials
Marina Arshavskiy
#30. This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
William Kingdon Clifford
#31. A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.
Kevin Bacon
#32. Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.
Mohsin Hamid
#35. We'd both been pushing at the walls of our secret world, pushing at each other. We'd give each other everything we could.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#36. I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.
Bennett Miller
#37. Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
William Monahan
