Quotes About Metaphor

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

My love is like a tire iron.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

March was doing exactly as it should; it had come in like a lamb, now it was going out like a lion. ~Only Betty Neels~

blueprint as a metaphor for a design or plan is much overworked. If the temptation to use it is irresistible, at least remember that a blueprint is a completed plan, not a preliminary one.

catachresis

I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick.

The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

Perhaps Calder's secret lies in the idea that each mobile is, truly, a metaphor for the experience of living, for the interconnected movement of separate elements that make up a life. Each mobile tells us to stop, to wonder, to wonder some more, and to celebrate.

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

The sun isn't yellow, it's chicken

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

Siamo il nostro ricordo, Siamo museo immaginario di mutevoli forme, Mucchio di specchi rotti. Cambridge da Elogio dell'ombra

I would pretend (metaphorically) to have seen nature and universe themselves not as a picture made or fastened on an immovable wall, but as a sort of painted canvas roof or curtain in the air, incessantly pulled and blown and flapped by a something of an immaterial unknown and unknowable wind.

Ihre Figur verjüngte sich einigermaßen unproportioniert nach oben, wodurch sie Ähnlichkeit mit einer Bruthenne bekam.

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.

On top of the bookcase were several Mexican papier-mâché figures of people with knives stuck through their heads and blood running down their faces...I found these comforting...They looked happy enough that way, and they were a nice metaphor for mental disturbance.

The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins – but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

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

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz