Quotes About Metaphor

Going shopping with your husband is like his going fishing with the game warden.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

It breaks the metaphor. The avatar is not acting like a real body. It reminds all The Black Sun's patrons that they are living in a fantasy world. People hate to be reminded of this.

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion? Juanita shrugs.—What's the difference?

This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

There is a saying, 'Turtles all the way down,' which I would not expect you to understand, but the point of it is that to speculate along these lines is idle

That's worst than gonerreha, man!

Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." "I'm sure it's not like sex." "How would you know? Everything's like sex. It's the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.

me as though I might need another analogy, which I didn't

How're the Broncos doing? Like a bunch of carrots. Is that bad? Can carrots play baseball? I guess not. Then you have your answer.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

Comme la théologie chrétienne, la tradition rabbinique distingue 4 niveaux de lecture de la loi : - le sens littéral ; - le sens allusif (métaphorique) ; - le sens profond (moral, religieux) ; - le sens secret (ésotérique, mystique)

You just totally missed the metaphor. I could never love someone who missed the metaphor.

If you are winter, then I am spring

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.