Fishes Quote by Bernard Malamud

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

— William H. Macy

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

— Kurt Busiek

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

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

— Jordan Wolfson

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

— OMI

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

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

— Richard Dawkins