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.

Neil Gaiman

Tag: truth lies metaphor rumors



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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...

Lauren Oliver

Tag: time metaphor



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

Vera Nazarian

Tag: music road rock-music folk-music metaphor jazz rock wilderness wild place genre city musical temple rock-and-roll classical-music folk classical jazz-music motif



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Oh, love is a journey with water and stars,
with drowning air and storms of flour:
love is a clash of lightnings,
two bodies subdued by one honey.

Pablo Neruda

Tag: love metaphor



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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

Annie Dillard

Tag: science geography water metaphor snail sea-lion systems-analyst



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It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from me all my life, flipping between my fingers like a shiny little minnow--such a far cry from the trophy salmon that dangled from my father's fist.

Elissa Janine Hoole

Tag: metaphor



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Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tag: sadness cynicism metaphor bitterness



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If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Ice-T

Tag: censorship metaphor controversy racism rap



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It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Andrei Codrescu

Tag: metaphor markets



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I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Naguib Mahfouz

Tag: living metaphor



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