They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor..

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor..

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things..

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor..

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't..

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it wil….

Language is memory and metaphor..

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explana….

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections..

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle..

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes..

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertil….

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors..

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war..

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which enterta….

Everything in life is a metaphor..

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes..

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

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place..

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith..

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist..