Old Metaphors Quotes

#1. For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it, we're gonna lose it. Look at me busting out all the tired old metaphors. Like I'd been saving them all winter just waiting for an opportunity to trot them out.

Cherie Priest

#2. I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

Elizabeth Olsen

#3. [They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Joseph Heller

#4. Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

Ruben Martinez

#5. When you are loving, kind, and appreciative, you can help change others without using criticism.

Debasish Mridha

#6. I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Jim Crace

#7. Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?

Stephen Baxter

#8. Plenty of things in the universe are old, my dear. That's like saying Florida is a metaphor for hell because they're both hot - though your grandfather would agree wholeheartedly with that, I suppose.

Sammy Nickalls

#9. For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

C.S. Lewis

#10. My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

James A. Garfield

#11. I loved them all equally, from the short story, to the poem, to the play, for nothing could touch me so deeply as a well-placed word.

Cheryl Anne Gardner

#12. My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.

Ovid