Quotes About Metaphor

When does a bush that burns become a Burning Bush?

In the kingdom of the blind, Amelia recited to herself as she trudged along— —the one-eyed man is king, Gamache read.

If stupid was sand, he'd be half the Sahara.

This part of rue Ste.-Catherine wasn't so much an artery as an intestine.

She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process worked with a human heart.

My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

In Virginia... all geese are swans.

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.

innocence is ignorance; ignorance is illusion; and Commencement, while it certainly is a metaphor, is no illusion. Commencement's for the disillusioned, not for the innocent.

It seemed to him, the more he thought about it, a kind of marriage between stone and water, the oyster. Inside a stone, water thickens into an oyster, and then it pulses within its shell like the gray heart of a gray stone. He felt he was getting close to something he needed to understand, not about oysters, about something else....

I've always felt that the Catholic Church has the same relationship to God as a fish has to a bicycle.

He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.

It went from butterflies fluttering in my stomach to bees stinging in my heart.

You are like salt in my food, sugar in my tea, water in my soup, music in my party and sometimes also like the red ants on the floor! But I love you. Happy Birthday.

An old friend of mine once told me, stop feeding the snake around your neck, one day it will grow strong enough to strangle you. How did she know? Guess it takes a snake to know one.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a litter box. Full of sh...

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

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

I don't ever get too literal.

Aidan was fascinated by Mr. Stock's hat. Perhaps it had once been a trilby sort of thing. It may once hace even been a definite color. Now it was more like something that had grown - like a fungus - on Mr. Stock's head, so mashed and used and rammed down by earthy hands that you could have thought it was a mushroom that had accidentally grown into a sort of gnome-hat. It had a slightly domed top and a floppy edge. And a definite smell

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!