Metaphor Quotes

For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is ...

How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated pl...

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion...

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt f...

It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and st...

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff...

I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece...

As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”“Wow...,” I breathed.She frowned

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ...

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...

The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral....

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's s...

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimen...

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a poi...

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled...

As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-...

A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket ...

When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its...

... the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forg...

There's a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe an...

Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it...

In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, sh...

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities b...

Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful la...

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

You told me that Kafka was not a thinker, and that a "genetic" approach to his work would disclose t...

Is that true," I asked, "that song?""It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth....

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the in...

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in deligh...

What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?""No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."...

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, o...

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And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he w...

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum ...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the st...

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, ri...

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to wh...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconsc...

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely object...

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences c...

In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concept...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little ...

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and ...

Happiness is the china shop love is the bull.

...All without any more sound than flipping over a playing card. And sitting in this limo, compared ...

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that ...

The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers,...

So endeth the story of the winning of Excalibur, and may God give unto you in your life, that you ma...

Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used...

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ...

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it no...

the road is life

Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended...

The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself an...

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same plac...

...maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our...

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a...

It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth,you just don't give it ...

Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone abo...

I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousan...

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill...

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so ...

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a sta...

Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another ...

If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.

The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally ac...

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man