Quotes About Metaphor

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow. .

O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.

O livro que espalma a flor nas suas págimas transforma-a em borboleta.

La luna es un banco de metáforas arruinado.

who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

saying these words is like speaking avocodo. warm, ripe juicy mango.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

I am basically a walking McDonald's chicken nugget.

Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.

Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.

Vu iz do a vasser on a zamd? Vu is do a melech on a land? Dos vasser fun oyg iz on zamd. Der melech in kortn iz on land. Where is there water without sand? Where is there a king without land? Tears from the eyes are withoud sand. The king of cards has no land. (p. 72)

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the inhabitant and whose abandoned smaller chambers are lighter than water and let them float in the sea.

It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.

Another metaphorical moral seems built into these two structures, for the maze offers the confusions of free will without a clear destination, the labyrinth an inflexible route to salvation.

Arbor bona frcts bons facit; mala autem arbor frcts mals facit. (Matthew 7.17:

Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.