Using Metaphors Quotes

#1. Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Shirin Neshat

#2. Does anyone remember the name of Paul Revere's horse?

Joe Jackson

#3. I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

Gregory Crewdson

#4. Chelsea clapped her hand over her heart, melodramatically. "Using my love of chocolate against me. I have no choice but to crumble like a ... chocolate cookie. Or whatever," She said when Laurel eyed her. "My metaphors suck. Let's go.

Aprilynne Pike

#5. When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.

Jason Evert

#6. It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

Deborah Tannen

#7. By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

George Orwell

#8. The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

Gordon Lightfoot

#10. No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself.

Ayana Mathis

#11. In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

Robert A.F. Thurman

#12. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Samuel Johnson

#14. When I die I want to go to Vogue.

David Bailey

#15. But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Scarlett Thomas

#16. I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

Rivers Cuomo

#17. Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

Eugene H. Peterson

#18. Change, at least in my life, is more often than not a slow and steady stream. It's not an avalanche. It's more of a snowball effect. I probably shouldn't pontificate about my life using winter metaphors. I've only seen real snow three times.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#19. My body is very shaped, and I like to be simple. I don't like to use so many colors. My best colors are black, white and blue.

Monica Bellucci