Rick Yancey Quotes

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

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

It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

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

Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?

How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

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.

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

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.

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

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.