The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife… — Jane Fonda 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
“A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land… — Bruce-Novoa Copy Share Image
“The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
“I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion.… — D.L. Hess Copy Share Image
The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them… — David Katz Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Surface metaphors are those that we use in everyday language, such as “This problem is just the tip of the iceberg,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was… — Larry David Copy Share Image
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“I am knee deep in sea water now, feeling the energy of the tidal waves as they roll inwards towards the shore.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
