Quotes about Metaphor

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I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe. — Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice — Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Happiness is the china shop love is the bull. — H.L. Mencken
People say that eyes are windows to the soul. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar — Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but fro — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go a — E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. — Mae West
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed — Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious. — George Lakoff
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman
What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, — Friedrich Nietzsche
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and — Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will br — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. — Truman Capote
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. — Edna St. Vincent Millay