Quotes About Metaphor

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.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Life is not like a box of chocolates unless there's a few turds in the box.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

What Martin Luther said: Faith resides under the left nipple.

sips fuel like a mouse sipping sherry from a hypodermic needle.

But in my mind tractors are like penises. They cannot be too big.

globalization, a grossly misnamed metaphor that disingenuously cloaked government deregulation and the privatization of public goods and services in the wrap of a new global "interconnectivity.

The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

Baseball is so associated with sex. "He's playing the field," "He scored," "He didn't get to first base." "I struck out." Why? "She wanted a diamond."

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.