Quotes About Metaphor

I reached for the knob. At the same moment it began to melt and transform, turning pink and finally taking the shape of a flaccid penis. It flopped softly against the door, like a man was cramming it through the knob hole from the other side. I turned back to John and said, 'That door cannot be opened.

And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what. I wondered if a ship had ever really sunk that way.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

I'm here to tell ya, immigration, it's like rats on a ship. America is the ship and allllll these rats are comin' on board, y'all. And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what." I wondered if a ship had ever really sunk that way.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

God is as real as a station wagon.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

las palabras son casi siempre retóricas o excesivas o metafóricas y por lo tanto inexactas

Believe me, if you're a teenager, you're always in the damned woods. Literally, you're in the woods — probably too much you're in the woods. And metaphorically you're in the woods, in your life.

Robert Frost suggested (with his usual sly wit) that a person uneducated in the operations of metaphor was not safe in the world, should not even be let out of doors.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

But Julia hasn't a bit of tact; and men, I find, require a great deal. They purr if you rub them the right way and spit if you don't. (That isn't a very elegant metaphor. I mean it figuratively.)

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, became more and more like fuzzy hair. The right thing would be to go away, to vanish for ever from the face of the sun.

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

looked watery, like it had suddenly filled

Every day's a sunshiny day when you don't have maggots and spiders eating your guts.

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.

Already his wings were burning up and he felt more like some ponderous moaning creature trapped in the mire.

A living parable

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Well, you know what they say about the month of March!" said Arthur. "In like a lion, out like a lamp." Idiot.

Perhaps the wine had mingled with the blood in his veins, and now he was part grape.