Metaphor quotes

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◆ Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

- Truman Capote100

◆ Life's a climb. But the view is great.

- Miley Cyrus99

◆ Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

- Truman Capote99

◆ The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

- Patrick Jones99

◆ the road is life

- Jack Kerouac99

◆ If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

- Dorothy Gambrell99

◆ I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

- Jandy Nelson99

◆ Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

- Anne Lamott99

◆ Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

- H.L. Mencken99

◆ It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

- Malcolm X99

◆ If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

- Wendy Mass99

◆ Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

- Jennifer Donnelly99

◆ Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

- Susan Sontag99

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

- Peter Shaffer99