Everyone Quote by Simon Beaufoy

Life is a ''ROCK''.

— Anonymous

“Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were…

— Joe Abercrombie

I may not have a rock in my life, but my life is full of pebbles. Each gives me the support, the courage, the…

— Tammi Post

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

— Edward Gorey

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

— Roberto Bolano

“As the Dalai Lama has described it, if we see a person who is being crushed by a rock, the goal is not to…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and…

— Mark Twain

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

— Gregory Bateson

“Just as legendary rivers were used to represent the flow of life, so Mount Athos is a handy image to show human vulnerability. Its…

— David Parry

“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”

— Rae Armantrout

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass__our roots…

— John Green

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our…

— John Green