Quotes About Metaphor

What a curious feeling!" said Alice; "I must be shutting up like a telescope.

change to tinkling sheep- bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

A poem wasn't really a poem, it seemed to her, unless it was full of metaphor; it took her a while to adjust to the prosody she heard in his work.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.

German surgeon Johann Paul Kremer warned in his Auschwitz diary, By comparison, Dante's inferno seems almost a comedy') but as metaphor.

That one should have to talk about the mind in metaphors is unfortunate, but inevitable.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's.

Passionate impulses are not for mollusks, especially us snails. I had rashes on my squamae, and my mesenchyma was in pieces. With the end of the reproductive season, the hormonal levels had dropped, and the romantic agitations had dropped with them. Youth had vanished, and my mucus was drying up.

Had he sailed too close to the wind? No, in his case another meteorological metaphor was appropriate perhaps: he had reaped whirlwinds—or at least what he had sown. She looked at her watch.

A funambulist! muttered Isabel. Eddie, moving towards the door, stopped. What's that? Isabel explained. Cat's new boyfriend. A funambulist. One who walks on tightropes. Like all of us, she thought. In the final analysis.

Invisibility to the young of course is a quality that grows slowly: by thirty one is beginning to get fainter, by forty one is starting to disappear, by fifty the metaphorical hill has been crossed and one is simply no longer ther.

Two mountains in Greece, you see: Virgil refers to piling Pelion upon Ossa as a metaphor for adding one very large thing to another—going too far, in other words.

Blue-shirt ( Blauserk in Inuktitat, the Inuit language), or Mykla Jokull, now known as Gunnbjorn's Peak (12,500 feet)--the great metaphorical centerpiece in William T. Vollmann's saga-like novel The Ice-Shirt --is the great glacier in Greenland used as a landmark by Erik the Red in sailing west from Snaefellsness.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

His eyes were eggy with blue yolks.