There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
John Philpot Curran
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
Marianne Faithfull
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
James Geary
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
Science is all metaphor.
Timothy Leary
Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock
Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
Jane Lynch