There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Richard Dawkins
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
R. Kelly
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Paul de Man
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
J. T. Walsh