Quotes About Metaphor

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

To borrow a metaphor from the kitchen sink… Children form strong opinions easily. They soak up information from their parents, school, and the media, and repeat it back to the world. So when you don't look or act like what everyone has been told is the norm, you get proverbially barfed on a lot.

Some people say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. In actuality, you have to make an incision through his skin, both dermis and epidermis, then carefully sever and separate the sternum. Only upon viewing the exposed thoracic cavity can you reach the heart--if indeed the male of the species actually possesses such an organ.

In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

Life is like a boner: long and hard.

Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks." PHOEBE TRAEGER

Lean forward a little, my lord, Toot said instantly, and shouted, Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back! I fought not to smile. No, that's a metaphor, I said. Toot frowned and scratched his head. I don't know what it's for.

metaphors can only take you for a short walk on a tight leash.

I don't make metaphors. ... I'm too busy being one. - Leanansidhe

Perhaps when we die our names are taken from us by a divine magnet and are free to flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crow who can reach the top of Antelope Butte. (From: Hard Times)

Un ordinateur portable est fondamentalement un bâton utilisé par un chimpanzé pour faire sortir les délicieuses fourmis hors d'un trou dans une bûche.

The feathers on your chin mean that you ate the parakeet.

Life is like a clam, when it opens, you gotta grab the gooey stuff.

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.

He had shrugged and said that the course of true love never was a straight flush.

I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.

Such an interesting English expression "dog eat dog", since dogs don't really eat dogs (dogs do eat shit, but that's another story).

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese.

We are living in a culture in which metaphor is discarded for these so-called facts. We train minds to detect these facts much as one breaks in a baseball glove. Meanwhile, the imagination is neglected and is left unguarded and untrained. W

Doing good to the devil is like planting a seed in the sea.

Love is the light of life; in marriage, it is the electricity bill.

The man and his woman is like the grave and its dead.

They say, "If you have true love, let it go and it will come back." I don't think so. True love is like a cupcake, it should be enjoyed immediately.