Quotes Tagged With :metaphors

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories....

My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of....

If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado,....

For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in....

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling....

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo....

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several....

Know a man by his metaphors.

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful....