"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

Metaphor, Nature, Beauty, Inspirational

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Metaphor, Body, Mind, Energy, Disease

"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Strength, Movement, Life

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Life, Growth, Struggle

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Metaphor, Rest, Support, Relationship

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Metaphor, Water, Change, Vanishing

"She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"A sheep in wolves clothing!"

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"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

Behavior

"Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you."

Affection

"Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys, it's more sanitary."

Affection

"The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger."

Power

"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."

Culture

"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."

Language

"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

"She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale."

"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

"A sheep in wolves clothing!"

"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

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"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

"Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you."

"Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys, it's more sanitary."

"The greatest danger to man in space was man himself."

"Never try to out-stubborn a cat."

"Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin."

"The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger."

"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."

"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."

"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."