Sometimes you just need to bow your head, say a prayer and weather the storm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is like a boxing match, defeat does not come when you fall. But when you fail to get back up again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are part of a puzzle in someones life. You may never know where you fit... But, someones life may never be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can… — Milan Kundera 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
Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some happy and some very exciting. But if you never turn the page,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dreams are like bullets.Trigger your dreams at right time on right target with patience and integrity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“ He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an… — Walter J. Moore Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“when I've thought about him dying-which admittedly isn't that much-I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“What therefore is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms: in short a sum of human relations which became poetically and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The wrong things draw you in like the Sunday-sun the eyes. You would stare straight into it and wonder if there is… — Sima B. Moussavian Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Life is like art done in chalk, beautiful but temporary, enjoy it while possible. — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Anonymous 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
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
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
Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
