Quotes About Metaphor

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights.

When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been watered.

and metaphorical message that required me to face life's paradoxes squarely and be humbled by them.

However, the molasses metaphor has three misleading features that you should be aware of.

The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

The shortest distance between two minds is a figure of speech.

When I was a child the comic case for baseball being the hardest game argued, 'Despite using a round bat and a round ball, you're told to hit it square.

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

John 6:53) "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.

I have a poet's weakness for symbols.

Wife beating without alcohol is like a circus without lions.

I'll eat you to live: that's poetry.

I believe everything is a metaphor for sex.

The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let alone a tender feeling, is on of the more obtuse critical platitudes of our time.

The resurrection for Christians is not just a metaphor. It is real enough, but not in the sense that you could have taken a photograph of it had you been lurking around Jesus's tomb armed with a Kodak. Meanings and values are also real, but you cannot photograph them either. They are real in the same sense that a poem is real.

The Great Wall of China resembles the concept of heartache in that neither can peel a banana.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

The turtle moves.

a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.