Quotes About Metaphor

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

The sea is colder than a maiden and crueler than a whore.

The crow calls the raven black.

Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you hard.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe, they nothing prove.

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.

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.

Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben können, die sehr von der im Lexikon angegebenen abweicht, wo der metaphorische Funke der Dechiffrierfunktion immer einen Sprung voraus ist, wo eine andere, unerwartete Interpretation stets möglich ist.

she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...

Yo tengo ganas de decirles que la conciencia se te come hasta que no queda nada de ti, como una araña que se come a una avispa, o una avispa que se come a una araña, nunca me acuerdo de cómo va, y solo queda la carcasa.

Beth's not on that train? Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.

Even though he couldn't see anything, he felt strong as an ox, big as a mountain, deadly as a cobra—you name the he-man metaphor and he was rocking that shit. It wasn't chauvinistic to want to protect your females. It was appropriate, and not because they couldn't be smart and protect themselves. Females were simply more important than males and always would be, and in the very deepest part of his marrow, he was proud to be in service as a mate and a father to them.

The tree looks like a dog, Barking at heaven

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.