Quotes About Metaphor

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.

The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of the picture, which is a metaphor for the structure of the Creation, suggests that evil is not final.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.

An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth.

Women, Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, are like mules. He frowned. Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes? Pure poetry, Mat, Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

Se desejos fossem asas, as ovelhas voariam . Era o que a Senhora Luhhan sempre dizia.

swimming naked in a river of fire churned to rapids by jagged boulders of ice.

A man is an oak, a woman a willow," the saying ran. The oak fought the wind and was broken, while the willow bent when it must and survived.

They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...

Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource. Frontal neurons are expensive cells, and expensive cells are vulnerable cells. Consistent

these capacities evolved so recently that our brains are, if you will, winging it and improvising on the fly when dealing with metaphor. As a result, we are actually pretty lousy at distinguishing between the metaphorical and literal, at remembering that "it's only a figure of speech"—with enormous consequences for our best and worst behaviors.

Love dissolves truth like wine the pearl.

DüÅŸünsenize öÄŸretmenim, gün bat?m?n?n içindeyim. Ve neymiÅŸ tahmin edin? Gün bat?m?, bütünüyle bir çiçekler diyar?ym??.

Tita supo en carne propia por qué el contacto con el fuego altera los elementos, por qué un pedazo de masa se convierte en tortilla, por qué un pecho sin haber pasado por el fuego del amor es un pecho inerte, una bola de masa sin ninguna utilidad.

Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.