Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“The two of them talked in medical babble while I sat there feeling as useful as a gorilla at a spelling bee.” — Renae Kaye Copy Share Image
“You won’t escape me. In a submarine, even escape sinks.” — Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's… — Ruben Martinez Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it.… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In this world, you are very much like a water hose in the garden. Love flows through you, just as water runs… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Surface metaphors are those that we use in everyday language, such as “This problem is just the tip of the iceberg,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
