Aviation Quote by Leigh Newman

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

— Bernard Malamud

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek

“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

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

— Roberto Bolano

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

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

— Richard Dawkins

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 introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

— M. H. Abrams

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

— Ogden Nash

“Similes are like metaphors.”

— Anonymous