Quotes About Metaphor

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

Our own homegrown evil, I'm sorry to say. And instead of rooting them out, the plan is to let them flourish—but within a walled garden from which they cannot escape and spread their evil seed." A girl could die of old age following a metaphor like this, Juliet thought. "Very nicely put, sir," she said.

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Don't seek out elaborate metaphors," her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

Viola was a good reader, a bookworm—a phrase she hated. "How can a worm be a nice thing to be?" Viola said. I would be a worm, Nancy thought, if that was the only existence on offer, and then laughed at herself for having reached such a pass. "Without worms we wouldn't be able to grow food and everyone would starve," Nancy said reasonably.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.