Top 16 Famous Metaphor Quotes
#1. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
#2. Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day, and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry, and it was not good. I was like, 'OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen.'
Camila Alves
#3. Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation,
Michael Morpurgo
#4. How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.
Thom Andersen
#5. I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
Harold Washington
#7. Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
Dorothy Gilman
#9. Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?
You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#10. People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.
Fred Durst
#12. Believe it or not, I was not always as awesome as I am today
Barney Stinson
#13. If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you.
Mary Karr
#14. If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
Annie Baker
#15. Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.
Oswald Spengler
#16. As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We're not specially courageous, we're just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.)
Markham Shaw Pyle
