#metaphor

"She had eyes like sunsets, and every time she blinked it felt like the end of the world, otherwise known as night."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

"Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

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

"Guilt is the toothache of the soul."

"In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious."

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."

"The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die."