That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors! — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Life is like playing chess with God. Your moves are called CHOICE and His moves are called CHALLENGES — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you lose someone, you go through a lot of metaphors. Our vocabulary falters in the face of death. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Life is like a refrigerator, you get what you want out of it and know what consequences may come if you are… — Jennifer Amorelli Copy Share Image
“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
Remember, we usually can't choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it. Make yours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really… — Bob Peterson Copy Share Image
When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone, avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
“She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Relationships are like stars, some are bright, some are only for a short time and no matter how invisible they may look,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone's paper has different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a bowl of ice-cream, it melts very quickly so enjoy it while it lasts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The grass is not greener on the other side, you just have to water your own and care it more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a wheel barrow; nothing ever happens until you start pushing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True love is like the star guiding every ship that is trying to find its way on the sea. — Lesedi Mosiea Copy Share Image
Looking for a suitable partner is like looking for a healthy food. It doesn't need to be delicious as long as its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.” — Niklas Torneke Copy Share Image
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off, the right pitch will come and when it does be prepared… — Sara Ann Nielsen Copy Share Image
Don't spend your entire life building a ship, without ever tasting the freedom of the sea. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
Never take for granted what God has given you. The same sun which melts ice, also hardens clay. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
We can't afford to wait until the storm has passed. We must learn to work in rain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like crossing a river. When you dive into it, there must be wave. To get you goal, you must swim. — Ky Vanchhay Copy Share Image
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Dreams are like bullets.Trigger your dreams at right time on right target with patience and integrity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
