Don't mix your metaphors.

There's a paradox to metaphors.

I, too, am fond of metaphors.

Metaphors let you feel things directly.

Metaphors can also live in verbs.

We utter about six metaphors a minute.

It's a debate about words, about metaphors.

Metaphors, it turns out, are not just words.

Max tends to misunderstand metaphors and large words.

So, how do we make and understand metaphors?

And somebody was talking about metaphors on Monday.

As for this, there are no metaphors here.

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses.

Some metaphors include the words like or as.

So I think we have to change metaphors.

Now, what's encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors

One should beware of misleading metaphors of organic decline.

Such metaphors matter, because they mis define the problem.

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

Metaphors aren't always about our human lives and feelings.

And many of the metaphors we use everyday are synesthetic.

We should even use winding similes and metaphors, where appropriate.

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

Metaphors give words a way to go beyond their own meaning.

But he also used a lot of metaphors and visual words.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

One of the clearest places to find good metaphors is in poems.

The metaphors and the administrations have changed, but not, it seems, the optimism.

NEWPORT BEACH When it comes to describing Europe s ever worsening crisis, metaphors abound.

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

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

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

Not surprisingly, synesthesia is more common in artists who excel at making metaphors,

Metaphors are a way to talk about one thing by describing something else.

Metaphors are art, not science, but they can still feel right or wrong.

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.

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

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

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

But why do the rest of us non synesthetes understand metaphors like sharp cheese or sweet person ?

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.

A simple set of metaphors as we can possibly come up with understand the architecture of the internet and you'll be fine.