Quotes About Metaphor

I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.

O s? înot pe burt? o zi, dou?, un an, pân? obosesc bine, apoi pe spate, apoi într-o dung?. Apoi într-un deget, apoi într-un fir de p?r, apoi într-un fir de suflet, apoi într-o r?suflare, apoi într-un geam?t. Ies eu la mal.

Scara la cer Un fir de paianjen Atârna de tavan. Exact deasupra patului meu. În fiecare zi observ Cum se lasa tot mai jos. Mi se trimite si Scara la cer - zic, Mi se arunca de sus. Desi am slabit îngrozitor de mult Sunt doar fantoma celui ce am fost Ma gândesc ca trupul meu Este totusi prea greu Pentru scara asta delicata. - Suflete, ia-o tu înainte. Pâs! Pâs!

Re?in ideea cu paharul. ?i dumneata ai fost un pahar în mâna mea. O cup? de ?ampanie, am spus "noroc" vie?ii, dar n-am apucat s? gust bine, c? am ?i sim?it am?r?ciunea.

E-o pasare ce-i spunem Bate-Vant. Ea da din aripi fara a zbura, De parca zborul ei inseamna a sta In aer, suspendata de un punct.

Departe-i trilul susei ciocarlii, Chemata-n cer pe scara-i de matasa... Te potrivesti din carji si dioptrii. Si ca-ntr-o apa-adanca, lunecoasa, Ca un copil te ratacesti in casa, Pleci in oglinda-ncet...si nu mai vii.

O sa-ti dau sah si-ti pierzi optimismul, Imi spune el. - Nu-i nimic, glumesc eu, Fac rocada sentimentelor.

Hay irreverentes, y también historiadores, que sostienen que la virginidad de María es un error de traducción. Y puede que sí. Pero ya sea en arameo, zendo, jónico, eólico o ático, haya sido virgen o mujer normalmente sexuada, María es sobre todo una imagen poética, digna de parir a esa prometedora metáfora llamada Jesús (no olvidemos que expulsó del templo a los mercaderes).

Mi mano derecha es una golondrina Mi mano izquierda es un ciprés Mi cabeza por delante es un señor vivo

There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does

Metaphor is a way of knowing the world, and no less a one than other sorts of ways of gaining knowledge.

Sometimes an owl is just an owl.

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.

Trump, too, would pass, like a kidney stone.

I'd begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.38

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

A sleeping bag is a tortilla for a human.

And you look beautiful, " she added."I look like a cake.""But a beautiful cake.

Philadelphia is just the tip of the Pittsburgh.