Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is as the the air we breathe, sometimes sweet and other times polluted! — Philip C Webb Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life is a great trip, the only problem is that it doesn't come with a map. We have to search our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth is like a beautiful bride, who needs no man-made jewels to heighten her loveliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a boxing match you're going to have enemies throwing punches at you left right and centre. But learn to pick… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
There are two sides to a coin, to most, one good and the other bad. It all depends on the choice they… — Michaleen Oneill Copy Share Image
Life is like a gamble. You cant win every game. But if the chip is in your hands, you will always have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good relationships are like trees. They provide shade to us shade in all situations of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't… — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try in a relationship it takes more than one person for it to be successful. It is… — David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Do you know how steel is made stronger? It goes through fire. Do you know how gold is purified? It goes through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Plenty of things in the universe are old, my dear. That's like saying Florida is a metaphor for hell because they're both… — Sammy Nickalls Copy Share Image
“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're… — John Green Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag 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
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
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
“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
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett 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 a wheel barrow; nothing ever happens until you start pushing. — 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 best camera in the world is one's eyes and the best photos are MEMORIES. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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