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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

J. Michael Straczynski

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

Anne Rice

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People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

Jack Nicholson

People

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul de Man

Facts

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.