#metaphor

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#forward #glass #going #guess #how

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. ↗

— Angie Stone

#being #being rich #embrace #girl #i

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor. ↗

— Walter Hill

#actually #boxing #hollywood #hollywood movies #i

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#always #around #been #big #boots

Life is like a B-picture script. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#life-metaphor #metaphor #life

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing. ↗

— Ken Follett

#metaphor #beauty

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of use is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#metaphor #life

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. ↗

— George Eliot

#thought #life

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#metaphor #love

Religion is the opiate of the masses. ↗

— Karl Marx

#philosophical #religion #religion