Quotes About Metaphor

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Your lips are like fingers?

Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.

For three decades, in describing people's relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that psychologists use as a screen onto which people can project their feelings and styles of thought. But as children interact with sociable robots like Furbies, they move beyond a psychology of projection to a new psychology of engagement. They try to deal with the robot as they would deal with a pet or a person.

It was a fruit relationship, perhaps symbolizing sex.

Seeing is flux," he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

Kind of like love before first sight." and "Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

Love is like the lion's tooth.

Love is like mayonaisse: when it separates, you've got to throw it away and start again.

Girls when it says "I love you" - it's like a second baptism - It gives them a whole new heart - As at the end of the egg.

Love is like life-merely longer.

Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.