Quotes About Metaphor

Ti ricordi quello che facemmo con la mia foto di sposa? Voglio continuare per quella strada. Viene il giorno che mi riduco tutta a diagrammi, divento un nastro bucherellato e non mi trovi più.

I asked what the scene at the beach was like and Chao goes, "A silent mob scene is like a hand job without the hand.

we may say that reading Montaigne, Samuel Johnson, and Tolstoy enriches our understanding of reality, and therefore enlarges our capacity to enjoy life and enhances our adaptation to it. Shakespeare, Keats, and the other great poets reveal the inner nature of the world and sharpen our sensibilities because their perceptions and their gift for metaphor make it possible for us to transcend our own limited vision by sharing theirs.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

A girlfriend is called a CRUSH of a boy because after marriage that woman is only going to crush to make juice of that man.

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

Dolores liked that story. Men were wolves and practical women took the knife to them, and those wolves, those sharp-toothed men, they didn't come back after that.

A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.

Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.

For the true poet the metaphor is not a rhetorical figure but a representative image that really hovers before him in place of a concept. For him, the character is not a whole laboriously assembled from individual traits, but a person, insistently living before his eyes, distinguished from the otherwise identical vision of the painter by his continuous life and action.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?

The night is also a sun.

But even your best love is only an enraptured simile and a painful ardour. It is a torch to light you to loftier paths.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

And then he says that Thibaut always referred to Twin Peaks as Cleopatra's Breasts.

Life is like a rose. A few thorns don't make it any less beautiful.

El corazón tiene mas cuartos que hotel de putas