Quotes About Metaphor

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

What a thrill—My thumb instead of an onion.

Bo aluzja jest swego rodzaju formÄ… sztuki. Aluzja to prawda ubrana w szatÄ™ metafory.

If life gives you lemons, a simple operation can give you melons.

I liked the idea of there being an alternative current that hums and crackles just at the edge of our visible world. Now I realize it is a metaphor for the sometimes confused and ill-at-ease way we feel in our lives , but as a child I thought of it more realistically: if you enter that forest, you'll go somewhere else. Somewhere exciting!

He offered an explanation, speaking of his search for tiny pores in the skin of reality, like the holes that worms bore into wood, and how upon finding one he was able to expand and stretch it the way a glassblower turns a dollop of molten glass into a long-necked pipe, and how he then allowed time to flow like water at one mouth while causing it to thicken like syrup at the other.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.