Metaphor Quotes

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheetI'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

All the months are crude experiments,out of which the perfect September is made.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

Death-counterfeiting sleep.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

Sail on silver girlSail on byYour time has come to shineAll your dreams are on their waySee how they shineOh, if you need a friendI'm sailing right behind.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?'

Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs

Language is wine upon the lips.

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

Life is a sport...drink it up.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.