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Metaphor Quotes by George Orwell
- By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader…
- To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a…
- There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
More Metaphor Quotes
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. — Alan Ball
- There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
- I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — Ray Bradbury
- Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley
- It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges
- I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter… — Mark Burnett
- For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that.… — Jason Aldean
- God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own… — Joseph Campbell
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card