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We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
— Yukio Mishima
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
— Marshall McLuhan
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
— Charlie Kaufman
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.
— Shirin Neshat
The application of gaming metaphors in non game contexts to influence behavior, improve motivation and enhance engagement.
— Andrzej Marczewski
Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.
— Pearl Zhu
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
— Roberto Bolano
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. — Richard Lederer
Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.
— Niklas Torneke
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
— James Gleick
I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
— Gregory Crewdson
I love the way he talks. By the end, perhaps I'll be able to speak in majestic food metaphors like Reverend Richards.
— A. J. Jacobs
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
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
— Orson Scott Card
I was endeavouring to adjust the faculties, which were in urgent need of a bit of first-aid treatment.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
That one should have to talk about the mind in metaphors is unfortunate, but inevitable.
— Aldous Huxley
She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
— Joyce Rachelle
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
— Aharon Appelfeld
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
— Haruki Murakami
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
— Mason Cooley
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
— Jane Hirshfield
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.
— G. Willow Wilson
Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In
— Jaron Lanier
There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.
— Samuel Beckett
The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.
— Richard Dawkins
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
— Jack Nicholson
In most cases I don't even know the metaphors lay waiting to be printed off my retina.
— Ray Bradbury
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
— Kate Forsyth
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.
— Francesca Lia Block
