#metaphors

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#metaphors #nature

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#least #metaphors #most #space #truth

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#pretty-metaphors #metaphor

Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not. ↗

— Stephen King

#metaphor

Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. ↗

— Anne Rice

#been #deeply #express #felt #i

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. ↗

— Florence King

#metaphors #nothing #say #strain #who

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man