Quotes About Metaphor

One of the goals of alchemists was to concoct the "elixir," a panacea that would heal all ills and prolong all lives. This miraculous substance had many names, the most inclusive being lapis philosophorum, philosophers' stone.

An analytic colleague, Alden Josey, once employed the telling metaphor that secretly "we wish to colonize the other," and like most imperial powers, we are flush with rationalizations to justify our agendas of self-interest.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

he said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the tea...

I have met with you, bird, too late, or if not, too worm and early

My love she's handsome, My love she's bony: She's like good whisky When it is new; But when 'tis old And growing cold It fades and dies like The mountain dew.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong...with a spoon in them.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Women are a lot like ducks-they don't like mud on their butts.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.