Metaphor Quotes

"Our emotions are like amphibians, equally at home in the water of self-soothing as on the dry land of action." "Religion is like a knife: you can use it to cut bread, or you can use it to stab somebody in the back." "The sea has neither meaning nor pity." "A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice all at once" "Life is made up of marble and mud" "God is at home; it is we who have gone out for a walk" "Words are spades digging the cairns of those who can't speak" "I am the good shepherd The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep" "My fans are like my glasses without them I'd be blurry" "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows" "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars" "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see" "It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean."