Language Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

“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

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

— Marshall McLuhan

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

— Tom Robbins

Money has a language of its own.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an…

— Victor Hugo

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the…

— Steven Pinker

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of…

— Mark Johnson

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

— Paul Reed Smith