Quotes About Metaphor

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

A simple serpent! . . we used to call ourselves simple serpents. Civil serpents. Servants.

It seems wiser to do as hermit crabs do, find a shell and inhabit it.

ALLEGORY, n. A metaphor in three volumes and a tiger.

Secrets, power. It's all a metaphor.

Greedy as a duck, brave as a pigeon, loyal as a cuckoo." "I always modelled myself on the nobler birds.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod.

So many of man's inventions - the syringe, the sword, the pen, the gun - were metaphorical cocks, but the internal combustion engine had to have been dreamt up by a man who had looked upon the human heart.

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

I don't think it's any accident that a slice of pie comes in the exact same shape as a slice of pussy

If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?

Our love is like. Our love is only like.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Everything transitory is but an image.

All things transient are but a parable.

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.