Hope Quote by Yorgos Lanthimos

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe…

— Nick Laird

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

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

— Gregory Bateson

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

— Edward Gorey

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

— George Lakoff

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

— Roberto Bolano

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

— Mason Cooley

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

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

— James Geary

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.

— Scott Adams

In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word,…

— I. A. Richards