#meta

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#people #shampoo #should #speak #who

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. ↗

— William Wycherley

#his #i #king #make #man

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#i #metaphorical #precise #say #scientists

I think I must have a super-fast metabolism. ↗

— Katie Price

#i think #metabolism #must #think

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following. ↗

— R.W. and Rev. Joseph Fort Newton

#metaphor #age

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ... ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#change

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that? ↗

— Marc Singer

#crew #doing #drill #fire #heated

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#hippie #hippies #metaphysics #new-age #yoga

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins! ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fma #fullmetal-alchemist #humor #manga #humor

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. ↗

— J. T. Walsh

#material #materialists #metaphors #our #such