Quotes About Metaphor

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

Wasn't the camp itself, with all the rigidity of its organization, its absurd violence, its meticulous hierarchy, just a metaphor, a reductio ad absurdum of everyday life?

I'm pretty sure the devil is made out of high fructose corn syrup.

knitting as well, then?" "No," laughed Auntie Jem. "It's a metaphor." Norm didn't care what it was for. He just needed to talk to Mikey. Alone. "You coming, love?" said Norm's mum, setting off with Auntie Jem. "In a minute, Mum," said Norm. "OK,

Chess is about the experience of passion, intimacy and caring but not in the way we typically use these terms. The game reveals implicit meanings in the idea of love by offering a shift in perspective and context. The point is that metaphors don't function merely as comparisons but more as translations, recreations or re-presentations.

If she'd repeatedly fallen over while crossing soft ground, you could have sewn a crop of beans in the chin-holes she left behind.

A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

El tiempo vuela como una flecha, decía la niña, y la mosca de la fruta también vuela.

Edward Said y Theodor W. Adorno, que eran refinados musicólogos, dedicaron páginas muy interesantes al contrapunto y la disonancia, una escritura musical y una forma estética fundadas sobre el contraste más que sobre la armonía tonal.[1] Son excelentes metáforas para definir el papel del intelectual.

allegory (which is an extended metaphor or image),

At some point in my life, I swallowed a Sun. And now it dawns and sets in my belly.

Q: What do peanut butter and hookers have in common? A: Both spread for bread.

If we sound fluency, and we write poetry which appears to articulate that condition—Carlos thinks hard about this—a reader will not acknowledge wires as nets in a poem as anything but metaphor for the mill.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The beauty of the original monster movies is that you were able to relate to every single character, or even to treat their monstrosity as an emotional metaphor.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus . And rest assured that it works.

Her lips were plum as labias.

La vida es una caca de vaca que hay que convertir en un pastel de manzana.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

Did you know the peach symbolizes longevity?