Lakoff Metaphors Quotes

#1. The disappearing time is the race of life

Sunday Adelaja

#2. My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.

Bill Willingham

#4. Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

George Lakoff

#5. New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.

George Lakoff

#6. The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.

Michael Ignatieff

#7. The truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson