122 Quotes About Metaphors

Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight away. We must start on the ground floor.

I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside to see what it was.

When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears us up. Without that physical structure, we are the house that bears itself up. I was now the house.

But metaphors can reduce the distance... metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

The brochures remained perfectly stacked, looming over their conversation, mocking his failure with their pristine tri-folds.

Allegories and metaphors are not something you should explain in words. You just grasp them and accept them

The train’s doors closed with a matron’s shush.