Quotes About Metaphor

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

Bloodflies rode her drawn gasps into her mouth, biting as she gagged and spat.

Einstein occasionally used "God" as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.

The theologian Paul Tillich once observed that among scientists only physicists seem capable of using the word "God" without embarrassment. Whatever one's religion or lack of it, it is an irresistible metaphor to speak of the final laws of nature in terms of the mind of God.

In some ways, I feel he is only a symbol.

Of course one feel san done knows what one feel sand at the same time is a master of feeling, not slave; feeling is the archive upon which we draw, but the archive has doors or perhaps it has drawers, it's got storage, an index, the metaphor for the archive of feelings has been lost on Sarah but she gets the idea. You're fucked if it isn't in order.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

I love you like a big fish

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

I'm a cactus but I will only offer you flowers.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

The old phrases crack and meaning shakes out wet and new.

as though the magic had burned off like the liquor on a pudding.

Let me use a second metaphor. Imagine that you found a tangle of seaweed on the edge of the shore and lifted it. The heaviest parts rest on the sand in a mesh, but some skeins extend vertically. This neural network is shaped like that: it looks like a tangled skein of a hundred thousand golden threads that has been drawn upward. The mass of it gathers in the pelvis, but strands from the same network extend upward to the spinal cord and brain.

We conceived of the planet as female, an all-giving Mother Nature, just as we conceived of the female body, infinitely alterable by and for man; we serve both ourselves and our hopes for the planet by insisting on a new female reality on which to base a new metaphor for the earth: the female body with its own organic integrity that must be respected.

I have never found a better metaphor for my relationship with the Eternal: a point lost in infinite space, wrapped round by the night under the subdued light of the stars. I am this point lost in space: the darkness, like an irreplaceable friend, is faith. The stars, Gods witness.

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

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