We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
The earth is like a beautiful bride, who needs no man-made jewels to heighten her loveliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are ,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A new friendship is just like unripe lemon or orange, with time either it may be sweet or sour. — Yashraj Suman Copy Share Image
We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe we met for a reason. Maybe something good happened from us being together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our feelings are like the night sky and words are like the stars in it. As there cannot be enough stars to… — Shakeel Alam Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Similes, metaphors and we pop pills. Sick flow inundated with the doc bills. Work hard, now we know how to top bills;… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The human soul is like a whiteboard. You never know how dirty it can get (living in this world) until someone's love… — Richard Stidham Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Embarking on a new relationship is like setting off at sea in a sail boat for two. Too much baggage from the… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“The anthropoligical theorist Paul Shepard writes, 'Humans intuitivesly see analogies between the concrete world out there and their own inner world. If… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“He spun her world in silver-blue Catching in the light the faintest hues A maiden from a castle tall Its towers spun… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“Crashing through windows I thought were open doors. Apologizing for the mess. Rationalizing my behavior in metaphors you’ll simply never understand. Learning… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“The wrong things draw you in like the Sunday-sun the eyes. You would stare straight into it and wonder if there is… — Sima B. Moussavian Copy Share Image
“What therefore is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms: in short a sum of human relations which became poetically and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Life is not a mp3 player where you can play what you want but life is a radio where you have to… — Zayn Malik Copy Share Image
Friendship is a network that needs: No recharge; No roaming; No validity; No activation; No signal problem; Just don't switch off your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
