David Chase

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

American Writer

Deepak Chopra

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

American Speaker

Lynsey Addario

The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.

American Photographer

John Cooper Clarke

Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if it isn't figurative or metaphorical, what is it? It's literal: there's no substitute.

English Poet

T. C. Boyle

I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

American Novelist

Simon Beaufoy

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

British Writer

Benedict Cumberbatch

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

English Actor

Henry Fielding

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

English Novelist

Kalki Koechlin

Theatre is more metaphorical where you have to be louder and larger than life, whereas film is more subtle and more real.

French Actress

Alice Walker

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

American Author

Don't use 'metaphorical' for objects or actions meant to be understood as they are, without symbolic meaning.

Avoid Literal

'Metaphorical' makes sense in a context where the figurative meaning is clear from surrounding text or conversation.

Context Specific

Be aware that metaphors can be culture-specific; what's metaphorical in one culture may not be in another.

Cultural Sensitivity

 so orchestras were not facing a metaphorical death of classical music they were facing the literal death of classical music audiences the study however did offer a couple of potential solutions the first attract and retain younger audiences the second attract and retain diverse audiences so as the young conductor I was determined I was going to help save

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 everybody around the world so that in a way not only has the educated people to appreciate his style of clown theater and his style of clowning but at the same time he has stretched the range of what is considered a clown but a clown can work lyrically they can work metaphorically they could work with

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 only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown. In life, we all have tempests to ride and poles to walk to, and I think metaphorically speaking, at least, we could all benefit from getting outside the house

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 and as such were not my enemies but a source of insight into solvable emotional problems. Now, at first, this was very difficult to believe, not least because the voices appeared so hostile and menacing, so in this respect, a vital first step was learning to separate out a metaphorical meaning

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 even at the most basic level, so let's take a closer look at possible futures that we might choose to steer toward, alright? So don't get me wrong here. I'm not talking about space travel, merely about humanity's metaphorical journey into the future.

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 I wrote a comedy show that did not respect the punchline, that line where comedians are expected and trusted to pull their punches and turn them into tickles. I did not stop. I punched through that line into the metaphorical guts of my audience.

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 For the first time in history, the U.S. Military set itself to DEFCON 2, the defense readiness one step away from nuclear war. With hundreds of nuclear missiles ready to launch, the metaphorical Doomsday Clock stood at one minute to midnight.

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 So, metaphorically, each of us here has relived the evolution of our whole species. And talking about babies, when you were starting to develop in your mother's womb, the first sensation that you had coming from the outside world,

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 And the metaphorical truth interferes with our ability to identify it as literally false. Metaphor matters because it's around us every day, all the time. Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

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 And perhaps it's only logical that emotions would be linked to an organ characterized by its agitated movement. But what is this link? Is it real or purely metaphorical? As a heart specialist,