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
Looking for a suitable partner is like looking for a healthy food. It doesn't need to be delicious as long as its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True love is like the star guiding every ship that is trying to find its way on the sea. — Lesedi Mosiea Copy Share Image
The grass is not greener on the other side, you just have to water your own and care it more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a wheel barrow; nothing ever happens until you start pushing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Relationships are like stars, some are bright, some are only for a short time and no matter how invisible they may look,… — 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
Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone's paper has different… — Anonymous 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
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
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
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter 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
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman 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
“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
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
Never take for granted what God has given you. The same sun which melts ice, also hardens clay. — Mercy Pheona 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 will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off, the right pitch will come and when it does be prepared… — Sara Ann Nielsen Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.” — Niklas Torneke Copy Share Image
Don't spend your entire life building a ship, without ever tasting the freedom of the sea. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Success is a vehicle, which moves on a wheel named hard work, but the journey is impossible without the fuel named self… — Michelle Villaflor Amante 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
“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
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
The earth is like a beautiful bride, who needs no man-made jewels to heighten her loveliness. — Anonymous 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
Life is a dance. Sometimes we lead, sometimes we follow. Don't worry about what we don't know, what's important is we learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happiest parts of my life are fractions where you are the common denominator. — Anonymous 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
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
