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A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
— Eoin Colfer
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
— Thomm Quackenbush
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
— Charlie Kaufman
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
— Nicholson Baker
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
— Iain McGilchrist
Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
— Sarah Mlynowski
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
— Owen Barfield
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
— Alice McDermott
The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.
— Robert Scoble
All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.
— Denis Leary
We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
— Sylvester Stallone
I've never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that's enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.
— Chila Woychik
Just as we know when we strike a metaphorical nerve with someone, we also know when we tap into what inspires them.
— Elaina Marie
Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
— George Lakoff
You should approach each book you should approach life
with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point. — Sherman Alexie
Actually getting closer to a metaphorical truth? Or metaphorically getting closer to an actual truth?
— Haruki Murakami
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.
— Terry Pratchett
You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ... - Hazel Grace Lancaster
— John Green
Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.
— Tim Heaton
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
— Carl Sandburg
The mind is inherently embodied.Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff
One fleece down, one to go.
— Pattie Mallette
Wallowing in the metaphorical mud of life helps pass time but doesn't really achieve much of any lasting value.
— Steven Redhead
The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real-that's why it's got the word "con" in the middle of it.
— Russell Brand
It was an allegorical, metaphorical, rhetorical question.
— Billy Phillips
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
— John L'Heureux
Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.
— Kate Chopin
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
— David S.Goyer
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
— Joseph Campbell
What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job
— Tyne O'Connell
