Metaphors Quote by John Green Download Open image ““Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.”” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Metaphors
“Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.” — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
“I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other things, which… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What if you don't have to be alone in your whale? Like what if that's the point? To find the right person to sit… — Todd Hasak-Lowy Copy Share Image
“You grow up readings about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and just when you think the world's all full of amazing things,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
“The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a clear conscience… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being. May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity. may your heart sing sweet… — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
Cheating is like eating fast food. You do it, you enjoy it, and then you end up feeling like shit. — Ritu Ghatourey 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 in 28… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
If you don't take the time to sharpen your axe, you'll spend your whole life hacking away at missed opportunities. — Blake Toth Copy Share Image
Life is like driving a car. You have to look left or right before you turn to your path, however you just have to… — Simphiwe Ntuli Copy Share Image
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Life is similar to Boxing game.. Defeat is NOT declared when you fall down; It is declared when you refuse to Get Up! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Friends are like petals on a flower; together they're beautiful and make people smile but eventually some petals fall off and drift off in… — Superman Copy Share Image
Life is not a mp3 player where you can play what you want but life is a radio where you have to enjoy what's… — Zayn Malik Copy Share Image
Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is will depend… — RVM Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, beginning with a seed of trust, nurtured with laughter and tears, growing into loyalty and… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
