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quotes by topic Metaphor

" Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. "

Language , Metaphor

" Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. "

Metaphor , Lies

" If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide. "

Metaphor

" The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down... "

Time , Metaphor

" For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house! "

Agatha Christie

Humor , Metaphor

" Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. "

Metaphor

" Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. "

Margaret Atwood

Metaphor

Preference , Seismograph , Metaphor , Boldness