Metaphor Quotes

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine...

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a dol...

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...

And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be c...

Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--l...

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

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence...

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

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the l...

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is...

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-...

The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.

They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,'...

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind....

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘w...

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscore...

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citiz...

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for ...

One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ...

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much...

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

Mind you,” said Ponder, “the universe does have a rhythm. Day and night, light and dark, life and de...

You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among hum...

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was li...

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not ca...

The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very...

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or o...

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

Science is all metaphor.

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction,...

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: th...

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets m...

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mou...

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting...

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save f...

Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, th...

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking fromThe weight of primary ...

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, ...

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a c...

After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a f...

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay d...

Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellu...

To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is ...

How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated pl...

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion...

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt f...

It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and st...

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff...

I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece...

As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”“Wow...,” I breathed.She frowned

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ...

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...

The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral....

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's s...

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimen...

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a poi...

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled...

As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-...

A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket ...

When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its...

... the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forg...

There's a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe an...

Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it...

In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, sh...

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities b...

Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful la...

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

You told me that Kafka was not a thinker, and that a "genetic" approach to his work would disclose t...

Is that true," I asked, "that song?""It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth....

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the in...

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in deligh...

What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?""No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."...