Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is like a gamble. You cant win every game. But if the chip is in your hands, you will always have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two sides to a coin, to most, one good and the other bad. It all depends on the choice they… — Michaleen Oneill Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
Success is a vehicle, which moves on a wheel named hard work, but the journey is impossible without the fuel named self… — Michelle Villaflor Amante Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Life is a great trip, the only problem is that it doesn't come with a map. We have to search our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happiest parts of my life are fractions where you are the common denominator. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a dance. Sometimes we lead, sometimes we follow. Don't worry about what we don't know, what's important is we learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Do you know how steel is made stronger? It goes through fire. Do you know how gold is purified? It goes through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll… — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Copy Share Image
A ship is designed to take you places, so if your friendship, companionship, partnership or relationship isn't taking you anywhere... abandon ship! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Friendship is like a sunrise. It begins dim, but grows in intensity as the day goes on. It warms the hearts and… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
A Relationship is like building muscles - Sometimes you have to break it down to the core and rebuild it to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In order to think and infer it is necessary to assume beings: logic handles only formulas for what remains the same. That… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lights which have learned to shine in the deepest of darkness, are those lights that shine the strongest, the biggest, the hardest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lies and truth are sort of like a poker game. You don't want to show anyone your hand, and sometimes you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
