Quotes About Metaphor

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Man be my metaphor.

People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.

It's the opposite of love." Me. Talking without planning to. "Hmm? How so?" "People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street corners. When plunged into a bowl of water, the tightly sealed shell opens and the flat, dry, coiled-up, insignificant shreds of paper contained within float out and unfold their variegated and unsuspected splendour; with Gordon I had found my bowl of water.

This summer has been so short, so small. I think that like "Alice" it ate the cake that said "Eat Me", and dwindled and dwindled until it was so tiny that it ran out through the cracks under the door.

Lady, you can't fuck a metaphor.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory.

Thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Life is not like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows.

The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.