Quotes About Metaphor

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect metaphor for life because we're all on a journey trying to figure out where we're going and who we are. 'Solomon Creed' is just doing it with more danger and guns involved.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Forget, too, the lamb-y, metaphor-male, the groinless, bourgeois Jesus, with his Easter-egg, candy-store-window eyes ogling the cruciform crosspiece of his eyebrows. If you meet such a Christ on the way, kill him. Do you wish to love? Do you wish to love? Leave love. Love nothing. Life is dark; life is dark at the no-place of the shocked heart cut two by the bone-handled, thrice-bladed Word.

Science is all metaphor.

But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.

You and I We do not talk anymore And all our asterisks Are turning Into flowers.

In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.

Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas

A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know.

She looked like a tomato struggling for self – expression.