Metaphor Quotes

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Siri Hustvedt

putriku menaiki lidah petir.membangunkan setiap raksasa malas.mengejarnya hingga sudutsudut kebun hidup.menggambar pertentangan dan kehancuran.

Dorothea Rosa Herliany

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.

Sarah Dessen

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

John Updike

The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

Lisa Genova

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Khaled Hosseini

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

William Shakespeare

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current

Tom Stoppard

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Criss Jami

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

Terry Pratchett

The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake.

Kurt Vonnegut

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Stephen King

If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

John Green

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

John Green

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did.The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what Helga teaches, isn't it? Stay right with God.I'll stay right with Achilles. I'll honor my papa, that's for sure, so I can stay alive until I'm old enough to go out on my own.

Orson Scott Card

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

Henry David Thoreau