Quotes About Metaphor

Well, I don't mean boner in the sexual sense," Gordy said. "I don't think you should run through life with a real erect penis. But you should approach each book—you should approach life—with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

You should approach each book—you should approach life—with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

Susan Alexie died of tuberculosis on August 30, 1945. I don't know why the exact date of her death is not on her gravestone. Perhaps it had been about money. Those extra letters and numbers might have been too expensive. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I could write I don't know one million times and publish that as my memoir. And, yes, it would be repetitive, experimental, and more metaphor than history, but it would also be emotionally accurate.

If a poet falls in a forest, and there's nobody there to hear him, does he make a metaphor or simile?

She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn't the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.' (Nick)

Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

through natural catastrophe, especially a more communicable form of AIDS. This kind of apocalyptic vision is common among abductees, but we have no way of knowing whether it is authentically predictive in the physical world – it certainly is not inconsistent with what we know to be occurring on the planet – or represents some sort of metaphoric prophecy or wake-up call.

In his imaginative response to Luther's text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start to finish: he shows that it can hold our attention and captivate us by metaphors that strike like lightning. As long as we are willing to let go and allow him to describe the world to us as he sees it, we are soon provided with a first point of entry.

Fu come se avesse appoggiato le labbra su un pezzo di arrosto freddo

how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually listen to what people say, there's almost no content substance to it.

Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.