Only with a leaf
can I talk of the forest,
unless you're the lead dog the view never changes...
mercy out does justice every time:
always find your way back home/
She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.
Patrick Major Dallas ORTags: humor dogs weird comedy metaphor voice gun husky
They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.
StendhalTags: metaphor prose peer-pressure public-censure
The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: nature mind logic metaphor
It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."
Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.
Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately.
But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family.
Even when they hate each other.
And that tends to put all things in perspective.
Tags: family metaphor brothers sisters siblings brotherhood brother fraternity sister
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E.M. ForsterTags: life metaphor violin 1908
She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
Tamora PierceTags: metaphor complaining harassment followed
Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are you talking about?" said Lief.
"Life and death.
Tags: metaphor life-and-death heads coins-on-the-edge tails
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
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