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Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
— Mason Cooley
Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
— Yukio Mishima
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
— I. A. Richards
Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
— Margaret Atwood
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
— Walter Benjamin
Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In
— Jaron Lanier
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
— Jan Struther
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
— R. Kelly
It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
— Rachel Hartman
I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn't do him justice.
— Zorgie Adriana Sanchez
All wishes are best granted metaphorically. Metaphors are much easier to see than the real thing.
— Rachael McKay
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
— Jordan Wolfson
Oh.Once again, the penny drops. Damn, there's been an awful lot of penny-dropping, and metaphorically, it's sending me broke. — Kat T. Masen
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
— Aharon Appelfeld
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
— Mason Cooley
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
— Jorge Luis Borges
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
— Dan Barker
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ...
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
— Jane Hirshfield
She doesn't know about metaphors but she knows that even the smallest human vessel has boundless storage for sorrow.
— Amber Sparks
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
— Osip Mandelstam
Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.
— Aaron Davidson
Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um ... sometimes a duck is just a duck!Mr. Tushman — R.J. Palacio
