Rudyard Kipling Quotes

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.

Life is like an analogy.

Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared off into space, blinking. "One of those things that’s symbolic of another thing. But isn’t the same thing. Just like it." "You mean a metaphor?" "No! It’s like a story...like...a proverb! That’s it." "I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a proverb. Maybe it was an analogy." "I don’t think so.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.

All the world's not a stage.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

We are, if anything - I do believe we function as a sort of editorial cartoon. That we are a digestive process, like so many other digestive processes that go on.