He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the…

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are , and it…

— Neil Gaiman

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

— Alan Garner

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather…

— Leigh Newman

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where…

— George Orwell

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

— Haruki Murakami

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

— Tift Merritt

The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet…

— Simon Kinberg

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most…

— Derrick Jensen

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you…

— Jean Houston

“It’s like um… I’ve become used to change I think from my life, when I was younger when I lived with my mum for…

— Matt Bellamy

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

— Sherry Turkle

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

— Jacque Fresco

I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.

— Anushka Sharma

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example,…

— Mark Haddon