The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Life sometimes is like a lift, on your way up, you must stop and let others out — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Sometimes love is like an arrow penetrating your heart, hard and painful to pull it out and hurt more to leave it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. Lie is like a pain killer. It gives instant relief but has side… — Shubham Chhabra Copy Share Image
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“But you have to be careful which metaphor you use, because it matters... The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish,… — Emily Sturgill Copy Share Image
“I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Love is like a Swing. It flies up and makes you breathless, then from the very peak of delight you fall down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always remember that moving on is not like math that comes with a formula. It is more like the theory of general… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“when I've thought about him dying-which admittedly isn't that much-I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You have to treat some friendships/relationships like food. Just like food they bare an expiration date. Some not many are good well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just need to bow your head, say a prayer and weather the storm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
A true friend is not like the rain which pours and goes away, a true friend is like the air sometimes silent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging “Say it new! Say it new!” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. from “She Does… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them… — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
Love is like answering a phone call, it starts with hello then after all, it ends to goodbye. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The best camera in the world is one's eyes and the best photos are MEMORIES. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Being Good to people is like being a Goal Keeper, No Matter how many goals you save, people will only remember the… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Love is like suitcase you may lose someone, but you've to pack it in the suitcase and move on. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
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