Dump Quote by George Orwell

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

— Roberto Bolano

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black

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 inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.”

— Niklas Torneke

Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves in our…

— Michael Rosen

“Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out metaphor acts…

— Bruna Martinuzzi

“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they…

— Chandler Burr

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

— Dennis Potter

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

— OMI

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb yet…

— William Gass