#metaphors

Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber. ↗

— Hideo Azuma

#life

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

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ↗

— Dar Williams

#because #funny #funny thing #go #got

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

— Florence King

#metaphors #nothing #say #strain #who