Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Life may not always be the party you hoped for, but while you're here you can still choose to dance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue. The moon and the sun learned long ago that, if each patiently waits its turn, they will both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit. — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
Life is similar to a boxing ring, you are declared a loser not when you fall but when you refuse to stand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Life is like paper. Don't make it heavy by drowning it into water of sorrow and pain. Instead make it lighter by… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The boat can't cross the river by paddling on one side. It should be paddled on the opposite side as well. That's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen,… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Women are like a computer virus... they enter your life, scan your pockets, transfer your money, edit your mind, download their problems,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there.… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
“Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for something your brain is not equipped to fully understand. God is as real as… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Love is like a bowl of cereal. At the beginning it is crunchy, fresh, and satisfying. Until you get to the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green Copy Share Image
“as though the soul’s abundance does not sometimes spill over in the most decrepit metaphors, since no one can ever give the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The hardships in life make me think of a well without water. It is nothing to pray for a heavy rain, instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, beginning with a seed of trust, nurtured with laughter and tears, growing into… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Life is like a quotation. Sometimes, it makes you laugh. Sometimes, it makes you cry. Most of the time, you don't get… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm the social network MySpace...always there even after you used and replaced me. — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
When one door closes another opens, is a fact l barely accept. The truth is, sometimes the open door is just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a… — Jordan Wolfson Copy Share Image
“She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Friends are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked down the drain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finding someone is like trying to find the right perfume. It has to be the right one, one that'll stick close to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
If you keep carrying the same bricks from your past into the future, you will end up building the same house which… — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Life is like a coin, pleasure and pain are the two sides, only one side is visible at time, but remember other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image