Pretty Metaphors Quotes

#1. The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody's metaphors for it; I'd said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.

Rickey Henderson

#3. I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

Bernhard Langer

#4. I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

Shakira

#5. He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#6. In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

Kelly Brook

#7. And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

R.L. LaFevers

#8. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

Roy Bennett

#9. Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#10. Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Alexander Pope

#11. People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.

Sarah Hall

#12. I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

Werner Herzog

#13. Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got

Norman Vincent Peale

#14. It's only through facing the truth that you will be able to fulfill your potential and live the life you were meant to live. It's only by jumping that you will be able to fly.

Nancy Levin

#15. I am grateful for all the military families that I've met. I wanted to spread hope and cheer to all; little did I know that they would be the ones to change my life the way they have!

Wynonna Judd