#metaphor

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off. ↗

— M. Thomas Gammarino

#humor #metaphor #music #humor

[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.' His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?' [Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it. ↗

— Blake Charlton

#insults #metaphor #stupidity #humor

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #clever #comparison #control #crying

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current… ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#life #metaphor #change

Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#metaphor #beauty

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#dreams #faith #flies #heard #i

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving