Quotes About Metaphor

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.