Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

- Alan Ball

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

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

- Florence King

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

- J. T. Walsh

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

- Keith Stanfield

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

- Octavio Paz

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

- OMI

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

- Paul de Man

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

- R. Kelly

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

- Richard Dawkins

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

- Trey Gowdy

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran