Metaphor Quote by Nicki Minaj

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene.…

— Robert Cormier

“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer…

— Brad Leithauser

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

— H.L. Mencken

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

— Aaron Davidson

“It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile that comes…

— Bruno Schulz

“Similes are like metaphors.”

— Anonymous

“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression…

— Moonshine Noire

“The train’s doors closed with a matron’s shush.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just…

— Pusha T

“love ridden i searched for you in corridors, open doors and in endless seas of similes and metaphors but we never were on the…

— K. Y. Robinson

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche