818 Quotes About Metaphor

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Don't burn yourself, to keep others warm.

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

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