Assuming Quote by Robert Breault

“Carrying my boat between bodies of water? I’m not so good with metaphors, dear,” Vivian says. “What’s it supposed to mean?” “Well,” Molly says,…

— Christina Baker Kline

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone,…

— Alfred de Musset

“I love letting my soul soar on a summer breeze, or getting entranced by the rhythm of the sea. It carries you off on…

— Cristen Rodgers

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

— Stephen Harrigan

“Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling…

— Herman Melville

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

— Eric Ludy

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro