Metaphor Quotes
You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
