Metaphors Quotes

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with...

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. W...

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stor...

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough...

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd tak...

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

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

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...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for ...

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how...

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I...

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away i...

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it make...

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is...

Know a man by his metaphors.

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and...

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while readi...

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...