134 quotes found
“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”
“when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”
“I love metaphor the way some people love junk food. I think metaphorically, feel metaphorically, see metaphorically. And if anything in writing comes easily, comes unbidded, often unwanted, it is m...”
“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”
“If there is anything in writing that comes easy for me it's making up metaphors. They just appear. I can't move two lines without all kinds of images. Then the problem is how to make the best of th...”
“Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.”
“Is there anyone nearby you can speak to without words?I dont know. I only know that there are those whose minds I can speak with that, when I show them how, speak back to my mind as well.”
“When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.”
“I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.”
“Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch.”
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls ...”
“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was now barely deep enough to bathe in. I saw her warmth draining away and I couldn'...”
“Speech is the pen and the sword of humankind and it is the foundation of their kingdom. Wherever the flag of speech waves, the most powerful armies are. defeated and scattered. In the arenas in whi...”
“Is that true," I asked, "that song?""It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth.""And the end of the mechanical age," I said, "is that a metaphor?""The end of the mechanical age...”
“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”
“The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.”
“If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.”
“If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmical...”
“One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. Its like a mirror is being held u...”
“...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.”
