About Quote by OMI

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

— Roberto Bolano

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

— Richard Rohr

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.

— James Geary

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

— Orson Scott Card

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

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

— Calvin Niles