Picture Metaphor Quotes

#1. She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.

Claudette Melanson

#2. Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own.

Toni Morrison

#3. In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

Seth Lloyd

#4. I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Robert Polidori

#5. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Joseph Conrad

#6. It sometimes happens that you just know ... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.

Paolo Pellegrin

#7. In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Horace

#8. The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Bernard Levin

#9. Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

Ellen G. White

#11. Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

Jamie Wyeth

#12. Life is like a B-picture script.

Kirk Douglas

#13. You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.

Susan Perry

#14. Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I've never seen a player in such good physical condition. He's a gladiator.

Jorge Valdano

#15. A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas.

Debasish Mridha

#16. What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Mary Ellen Mark