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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. — Mary Catherine Bateson
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. — Erin McKean
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the… — George Steiner
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit. — Trey Gowdy
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding… — Tom Wujec
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the… — Marie Rutkoski
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. — John Updike
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we… — James Gleick
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so… — A. S. Byatt
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors. — Anatole Broyard
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the… — Robert Inchausti
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. — Dan Barker
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. — Proverb
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense — Mark Overby
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. — Unknown Author
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once — Unknown Author
Being Good to people is like being a Goal Keeper, No Matter how many goals you save, people will only remember the ones you Missed! — Abhishek Tiwari
A good friend is like a computer. She enters your life, saves you in her heart, formats your problems, shifts you to opportunities and never… — Superman
True love is like the star guiding every ship that is trying to find its way on the sea. — Lesedi Mosiea
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the branch but on its own… — Superman
Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, But in the end, it is always beautiful. — Superman
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, beginning with a seed of trust, nurtured with laughter and tears, growing into loyalty and love. — Nishan Panwar
What is love? In math: an equation; in history: a war; in chemistry: a reaction; in art: a heart; in me: YOU. — Superman

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