Bones Quote by Pat Pattison

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

— Rodney Crowell

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

— Brad Paisley

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

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

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of…

— Ian Anderson

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that's how songwriting…

— Sigrid

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

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

— James Geary

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

— Richard Dawkins

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I…

— Stephen Dobyns

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter