“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Don't Be Afraid Of Wolf Leading Pack Of Sheeps, Be Afraid Of A Sheep Leading The Pack Of Wolfs. — FazeelAhmed Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging “Say it new! Say it new!” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
“Some desires do not arrive violently. They settle quietly into the body until they begin speaking with your own voice.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as… — William James Copy Share Image
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon,… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
