Top Metaphors Quotes
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
J. T. Walsh
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Walter Hill
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
J. T. Walsh 
Orson Scott Card 
Jack Nicholson 
William H. Hunt All Metaphors Quotes
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
J. T. Walsh 
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
56% of people like this quote
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera
55% of people like this quote
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Walter Hill
55% of people like this quote
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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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
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card
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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
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People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson
47% of people like this quote