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We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature. — Stephen Jay Gould

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit. — Trey Gowdy

Metaphors convince at once or not at all. — Mason Cooley

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head. — Ray Bradbury

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

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. — James Geary

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

I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. — Milan Kundera

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

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. — Alan Ball

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

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form. — Sarah Hall

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. — Munia Khan

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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 think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc. — Lydia Davis

In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors. — Ymatruz

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 hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal. — Ron Swanson

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 metaphors
And 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

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins

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

Lead's erasing then vanishing
Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned
Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy — Criss Jami

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

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West

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

Have you ever traveled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for a thousand years? I do not recommend it. — Sam Harris

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

The match I struck shall not run dead
You're my first inhale, my last cigarette. — Mie Hansson

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. — Anne Rice

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Stieg Larsson

My fans have always loved my metaphors. — R. Kelly

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery. — OMI

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

A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd. — Victor Hugo

"Money to Burn" is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors. — Ladyhawke

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment. — Rick Warren

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life. — Sarah Hall

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

This is a view that reminds you of you.
This is a metaphor you had nothing to do with. — Kris Kidd

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

If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he'd go with the sunshine. — Meredith Marple

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish