122 Quotes About Metaphors

Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

If Bagel's face was a lump of clay on a pottery wheel, it'd been rapidly thrown from an angry grey blob to a rather enthusiastic vase.

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.

For some people history is a Beach or a Tower or a Graveyard. For me it was a giant primordial Toyshop with all its windows gloriously ablaze…It was my present for being alive.

When I quit smoking, they told me it takes three days to be able to breathe normally again, five days until I’m no longer physically addicted, seven days until there’s no more nicotine in my blood, six months to be entirely clean and fifteen years until the chance of a sudden death due to the consequences of smoking is minimized to 50%.I wish somebody could tell me how long it would take to be over you, too.