Quotes About Metaphor

One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

a metaphor for modern medicine. A doctor a day may keep the apples away.

There are no exact analogies.

As you open your compass, consider that you are metaphorically repeating this first principle of the Monad, the opening of light, space, time, and power in all directions.

I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.

El vino es una metáfora de la vida… o viceversa.

Drie pijlen om een volwassenen everzwijn mee neer te schieten. Dat was bijna hetzelfde als een eland met een bosje bloemen doodmeppen.

Het voelde of ik werd losgetrokken, had Torak gezegd. Het voelde alsof ik de vis was.

The immortals do not die, even when they do die. Men come to be symbols, pieces in the great game.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.

Love is not like a potato--you can't throw it out the window.

I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Postupci u ?ove?ijem životu su poput jela, a misli I ose?anja kao za?ini. Ne?e dobro pro?i onaj ko posoli trešnje ili sir?etom zalije kola?...

According to one of these terrible stories, the source of Daubmannus' erstwhile youthful cheerfulness and spirit, despite his affliction, was the fact that, hunched and bent as he was, he could reach down and suck at himself, and so he learned that the male seed tastes like a woman's milk. This was how he kept renewing himself.

The fools here have pumpkins for heads, and seeds are not brains.

For me, the pachinko business and the game itself serve as metaphors for the history of Koreans in Japan—a people caught in seemingly random global conflicts—as they win, lose, and struggle for their place and for their lives.

I'm a floating TURNIP HEAD

Don't swallow a scythe if your stomach isn't curved

If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

All kings will be reincarnated as lions and employees as flocks of sheep.