Quotes About Metaphor

Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

A strong ant is better than a weak lion.

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses..." That's it.

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.

My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.