Quotes About Metaphor

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they're both in my car and I want you to see them

That's how it is with werewolves. You have something, then you just have the story of it.

Flies struggled from her mouth, only to ignite into brilliant golden sparks. Hundreds of them, thousands of them burst from her into their individual pinprick of fire which then was gone for ever, like the distant implosion of a dying star...

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually.

The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

Evolution is to analogy as statues are to birdshit.

Life is like a clam," Birds Mottle's father once told her. "Years filtering shit then some bastard cracks you open and scrapes you into its damned mouth.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

A meme is simply a unit of memorable cultural information. It can be as small as a tune or a metaphor, as big as a philosophy or religious concept. Hell is a meme; so are the Pythagorean theorem, A Hard Day's Night, the wheel, Hamlet, pragmatism, harmony, "Where's the beef?," and of course the notion of the meme itself.

Acting is not a metaphor but rather a model that you can apply to both life and work.

But the truth enters at the end of life. It enters like oxygen into every cell and the madness it feeds there in some is only a lucid metaphor for something long burned to nothing, like a star. How do you get under your desire? How do you peel away each desire like ponderous clothes, one at a time, until what's underneath is known?

Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.

In 1972, the seagull was deposed when a conference organizer, unable to check back about what Lorenz wanted to call an upcoming talk, wrote his own title that switched the metaphor to a butterfly.)

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You walk like a duck, and quack like a duck, I'm gonna fill your ass full of birdshot like a duck.

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