Quotes About Metaphor

I will see you in another life when we are both cats.

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

If it´s true that we are what we eat, then I could be you by morning.

Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: "You name them and when they get sick, you nurse them back to health. [Now] servers are [treated] like cattle. You number them and when they get sick, you shoot them.

Remember that things are symbols, and that the thing symbolized is more important than the symbol itself.

He imagined the fervid hum of the city above them, the constant buzz and surge of business and activity, and Irene drifting through it like a single butterfly with a pack of wolves on her tail. The image lacked poetic balance, and he frowned. 'What chases butterflies?' he asked. Evariste glanced at him sidelong. 'What the hell does that have to do with anything?' he asked. Kai looked back in disdain. 'Poetic metaphor,' he said.

wash our clothes by beating them with our heads.

As leene was his hors as is a rake.

Die Metapher ist weit klüger als ihr Verfasser, und so sind es viele Dinge. Alles hat seine Tiefen. Wer Augen hat, der sieht alles in allem

She would have made a great lizard, basking on a hot rock in the sun.

Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie

For the record, and those readers oblivious to metaphor, I would have avoided the subject entirely if my wife did not assure me I was of average size, an opinion as comforting as it is troublesome, because I know how much research she's done first hand. From the chapter, Small Penis Rule.

It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

Sometimes I think that just as trains and carriages are means of locomotion to get us from one place to another on this earth, so typhoid and consumption are means of locomotion to get us from one world to another.

She made Herman think of a stale loaf of bread put into a hot oven to be freshened up.

Se repetía la metáfora del abedul, que se dobla ante la tempestad, pero no se quiebra.

The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.