Metaphor Quotes

• I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.

  

  Karen Walker
  • Thinking
  • Building
  • Brands

• Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • America
  • Baseball
  • Metaphor

• (...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Pride
  • Smile
  • Beast

• We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Needs
  • Metaphor

• PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move forward with certainty, and yet move forward we must. We stumble through life, trying to find our own way, not knowing whom to listen to, whom to trust, whom to suspect, what to believe. But in that process we discover our most authentic selves.

  

  Norman Buckley
  • Knowing
  • Forward
  • Metaphor

• I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

  

  Deborah Copaken
  • Time
  • Press
  • Metaphor

• I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting words together. I can't just smash out material like other guys. I just want my albums to be crazy every time I drop one.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Really

• You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Metaphor
  • Organize

• Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Mind
  • Metaphor
  • Integration

• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mind
  • Passionate
  • Metaphor

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