Metaphor Quotes

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

His studies were always second to Beatrice. He would've said everything was second to Beatrice but the flowery metaphors and literary devices can only stretch so far and for so many characters.

He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.

Just being out of the house with Daddy like this at Fisher's lights me up enough for somebody to read by me.

I opened my mouth to tell her that everything would be okay, but the words melted like sugar on my tongue-sweet yet insubstantial.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

Is there anyone nearby you can speak to without words?”“I don’t know. I only know that there are those whose minds I can speak with that, when I show them how, speak back to my mind as well.

It's not always so easy, " she said softly."Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.

...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she

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

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

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

Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.

Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.

A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mintHad bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.

You're saying, ' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.

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

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.

I'm going to be frank, Max...""Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.

One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.

If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves.

The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. Chuang Tzu

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.