818 Quotes About Metaphor

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.

The wind has toppled the telescopeover onto the lawn:So much for stars.Your brief shot at the universe, gone.

Reality was a bad choice of enemy — it had no need for disguise, didn't respect the rules, and hit below the belt.

She believed just then that to let him take her in his arms would be the next thing to her dying. This belief, for a moment, was a kind of rapture, in which she felt herself sink and sink.

She pushed herself through the opening, around an ornament that was simultaneously a hanging light bulb and a uvula, and stepped inside. She entered the Mouth, the Throne Room, the Jaws of the Devouring God, or maybe just another in a series of countless double-wides gutted and lashed together with scavenged steel and magic, the bare skeleton of an illusory power. Tongue. The Devourer. God, the Devil, or nobody at all.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

When I read the Bible I picture you as Jesus, so maybe fainting in a church was a metaphor after all.

Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks