Metaphors Quotes

You might laugh because every time I sign my name I put a gold star after it, but its a metaphor, and metaphors are important. My gold stars a metaphor for me being a star. - Rachel Berry

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. - Florence King

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. - Maimonides

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides. - Deborah Tannen

We've stripped out all the metaphors. - Todd Tubutis

We use humor and metaphors to break through the clutter. We strive for intelligent/clever humor, with hopes of generating more than a chuckle. - Pam Girardo

We let them choose their favorite author, read a passage and talk about the format they used, their word choice and use of simile or metaphors. - Robyn Rogers

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. - J. T. Walsh

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. - William H. Hunt