Change Quote by George Eliot

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

“Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.”

— Aaron Davidson

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

— John Green

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

— Lydia Davis

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Roberto Bolano

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

— OMI

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

— Warren G. Bennis

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

— Richard Dawkins

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

— F. L. Lucas