The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Some words are spoken by the eyes. And you must understand the language of the eyes.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. — J. T. Walsh Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Beth's not on that train?" "Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.” — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I think the best horror is often a metaphor or keys into people's real life paranoia. — Ti West Copy Share Image
“Metaphor themes reside below surface metaphors, but are not completely buried in our unconscious.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor, more like killer bees. -pg 6 — Beautiful Creatures (the Book) By Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
