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We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
— Mason Cooley
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
— Jane Hirshfield
Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
— Yukio Mishima
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
— Haruki Murakami
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
— Idina Menzel
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
— Charlie Kaufman
Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.
— Elizabeth Camden
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
— Susan Sontag
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
I want to paint the way a bird sings.
— Claude Monet
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
— Giannina Braschi
Innovation scholar Richard Ogle calls an "idea-space": a complex of tools, beliefs, metaphors, and objects of study.
— Steven Johnson
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
— I. A. Richards
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
— Northrop Frye
Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
— Margaret Atwood
The application of gaming metaphors in non game contexts to influence behavior, improve motivation and enhance engagement.
— Andrzej Marczewski
She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.
— Raymond Chandler
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
— Laurie Cabot
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
— Walter Lippmann
She doesn't know about metaphors but she knows that even the smallest human vessel has boundless storage for sorrow.
— Amber Sparks
Enough with these stupid metaphors. They don't do any good.
— Haruki Murakami
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
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.
— Charles Simic
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
— M.H. Abrams
Dead metaphors make strong idols.
— Marcia Falk
Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.
— Aaron Davidson
A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.
— Terry Pratchett
You have buttered your bread. Now you must lie on it.
— Beverly Rycroft
The use of food metaphors is really well established English ... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
— Erin McKean
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
— Aharon Appelfeld
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphorsAnd trying to convince my shadow that I'm someone worth following — Rudy Francisco
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
— Mason Cooley
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
— Roberto Bolano
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
— Jorge Luis Borges
She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out.
— Alexander McCall Smith
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
— Dan Barker
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.
— Francesca Lia Block
The cake is not for eating; it is to teach the cook.
— Max S. Marshall
If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
— Roger Zelazny
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
— George Eliot
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ...
— R. Buckminster Fuller
But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.
— Kim Culbertson
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
— Stephen Colbert
Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.
— Milan Kundera
It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
— Rachel Hartman
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.
— Jennifer Egan
Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.
— Richelle Mead
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
There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.
— Samuel Beckett
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
— Walter Benjamin
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.
— G. Willow Wilson
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
— R. Kelly
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
— Jan Struther
Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In
— Jaron Lanier
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
— Haruki Murakami
Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um ... sometimes a duck is just a duck!Mr. Tushman — R.J. Palacio
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
— Kate Forsyth
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
— Rachel Hartman
In most cases I don't even know the metaphors lay waiting to be printed off my retina.
— Ray Bradbury
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
— Jack Nicholson
Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.
— G. Willow Wilson
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Know a man by his metaphors.
— John Connolly
The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.
— Richard Dawkins
But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.
— Haruki Murakami
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
