We utter about six metaphors a minute.

So, how do we make and understand metaphors?

And somebody was talking about metaphors on Monday.

So I think we have to change metaphors.

And Rumi's stories are metaphors for the spiritual path.

Brilliant Metaphors of Xi Jinping about Comprehensively Strengthening Party Discipline

We turn facts into similes and metaphors, and even fantasies.

And many of the metaphors we use everyday are synesthetic.

And he expressed his unshakeable convictions in everyday language, in metaphors, in stories.

And talk about where metaphors and reality mix this is the actual school.

Those exposed to agent metaphors had higher expectations that price trends would continue.

Modern neuroscience is revealing that metaphors are intrinsic to creativity, for their use activates diverse regions of the brain associated with their multiple meanings. Good metaphors are those that set off the right intuitive connections in our brains.

I wanted to have humor, beauty, simplicity and complexity and use metaphors to suggest ideas.

They took longer to reject metaphors as false than they did to reject literally false sentences.

Obama s slogans are examples of dead metaphors they are not part of an overall conceptual scheme.

Object metaphors describe price movements as non living things, as in, The Dow fell like a brick.

Agent metaphors describe price movements as the deliberate action of a living thing, as in, The NASDAQ climbed higher.

And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.

And when that happens, the feeling is ecstatic and we reach for metaphors of up and down to explain these feelings.

With respect to comprehensively strengthening party discipline, General Secretary Xi Jinping has given many vivid and impressive metaphors, so let s review them together!

Do I want to walk in, because unless I have Ariadne's thread to anchor enough metaphors for you? somewhere, I may not get out.

I, too, am fond of metaphors. During a trip to the continent last week, I heard one that captures very well the key dynamic in Europe today.

To switch animal metaphors, it is a watchdog without teeth. It can neither instruct the other regulators what to do (or not do) nor force member countries to comply with new regulations.

NEWPORT BEACH When it comes to describing Europe s ever worsening crisis, metaphors abound. For some, it is five minutes to midnight for others, Europe is a car accelerating towards the edge of a cliff.

Now, what's encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors actually, one of them is my mother's interpretation, and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it to me save a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life.

Newspapers and magazines are blandly reproducing official pronouncements and reports from the state run news agency. Some have taken the risk of resorting to metaphors and allegory, while others poke fun at the whole thing by writing editorials on ballet or bee keeping.

But what you have to do to make sense of this and to really understand these principles is you have to do away with a lot of the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea creation.

It is difficult to know what to make of this literary material, and at times to understand it because of its archaic style, allusions and metaphors. But Al Qaeda s poetry deserves closer attention, because it is a medium of communication between members of the movement.

In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.

Mistaken beliefs, on the other hand, are reflected in metaphors like contagion and domino effect, which imply that financial markets become blind, virulent, and indiscriminate when they are disturbed. Such terms provoke fear that, once confidence in any one country is lost, all others are in danger.

I'm trying to find not the metaphors, but, rather, the points in common the common gripes, the common issues, the common preoccupations and I think that it will enable us to go a little further in this idea of design as an instruction, as a direction rather than a prescription of form.

BRUSSELS The metaphors used during the financial crisis of 2008 2009 earthquake, tsunami, meltdown, black swan, and fallout are back with a vengeance, but now they are being recycled literally. In fact, the financial crisis and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan share at least four similarities

Weighty minds will probably see the IPL s tawdry underside as emblematic of post liberalization India s crony capitalism and business short termism. But it is always dangerous to find in sports large metaphors for national decline, so the temptation to view the IPL as symptomatic of everything that is wrong with today s India must be resisted.

But no regional leader is as frantic or as dangerous as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the principal of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.

When the government did not oblige, 50,000 people set out on the fabled Grand Trunk Road to Islamabad, taking 36 hours to complete the 300 kilometer trek. Qadri addressed the marchers repeatedly liberally mixing political metaphors, he called himself a latter day Mao Zedong on a journey to launch a system cleansing jihad and initiate a Pakistani version of the Arab Spring.

I just want to say that we are applying this to many world problems changing the drop out rates of school kids, combating addictions, enhancing teen health, curing vets' PTSD with time metaphors getting miracle cures promoting sustainability and conservation, reducing physical rehabilitation where there is a 50 percent drop out rate, altering appeals to suicidal terrorists, and modifying family conflicts as time zone clashes.

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. A metaphor for His light is a niche in which there is a lamp placed in a glass. The glass is like a shining star which is lit from a blessed olive tree that is neither eastern nor western. Its oil almost lights up even though it has not been touched by the fire. It is light upon light. God guides to His light whomever He wants. God uses various metaphors. He has the knowledge of all things.

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. A metaphor for His light is a niche in which there is a lamp placed in a glass. The glass is like a shining star which is lit from a blessed olive tree that is neither eastern nor western. Its oil almost lights up even though it has not been touched by the fire. It is light upon light. God guides to His light whomever He wants. God uses various metaphors. He has the knowledge of all things.