Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Be the ocean to create the wave. Don't drown, trying to ride the wave you see others surfing. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair; It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old Friends are like gold. New Friends are like diamonds. If you get diamonds don't forget gold, because only gold can hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Life is like a train on rails. Can only go forward, right or left, cannot turn around! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; they'll scratch you up time and time again but in the end you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Life is like chapters in a book.. We can't erase what has been already written but we can write a better ending… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There’s just one problem with feelings. They can be tremendously difficult to express in words. That’s the reason we so often resort… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“as though the soul’s abundance does not sometimes spill over in the most decrepit metaphors, since no one can ever give the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
