Metaphor quotations
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- Tahereh Mafi99◆ Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
- Werner Heisenberg98◆ The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia', is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.
- Thomas Henry Huxley98◆ But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
- Haruki Murakami98◆ It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.
- Shannon Hale98◆ For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
- George Eliot98◆ What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
- Robert Hughes98◆ 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 Updike98◆ Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
- Margaret Atwood98◆ A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
- Barry Lyga98◆ Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
- Jeanette Winterson98◆ What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
- Friedrich Nietzsche98◆ Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
- Roberto Bola?o98◆ What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
- George Eliot98◆ Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.
- Matt Simpson98
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