#Metaphors

Apr

18

2019

Colorful metaphor

From: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?

Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock)

Oct

27

2018

A wolf is a wolf

From: The Black Hole

A wolf remains a wolf even if it has not eaten your sheep.

Roddy McDowall (V.I.N.CENT.)

Nov

25

2017

I don't watch TV

Babylon 5

From: Babylon 5

Episode: Between the Darkness and the Light (1997) (Season 4, Episode 19)

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the Liberal Media Elite.

James Laing (First Guard)

Apr

29

2016

Open road smorgasbord

From: Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

The only thing you're going to learn about yourself on a plane is that you like the honey-roasted peanuts better than the plain-salted. If you're really hungry, the open road is a smorgasbord of life experience.

Joe Manganiello (Joe Manganiello)

Apr

15

2016

The nail that gets hammered down

Babylon 5

From: Babylon 5

Episode: Comes the Inquisitor (1995) (Season 2, Episode 21)

Your only destiny is to be the nail that gets hammered down. Bang, bang, bang.

Wayne Alexander (Sebastian)

Apr

04

2016

Valley of the Dolls

From: Valley of the Dolls

You've got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.

Barbara Parkins (Anne Welles)

Feb

27

2016

Walking thesaurus

From: Guardians Of The Galaxy

Cease your yammering and relieve us from this urgent confinement. –Yeah, I'll have to agree with the walking thesaurus on that one. –Do not ever call me a thesaurus. –It's just a metaphor, dude. –His people are completely literal. Metaphors are going to go over his head. –Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it. –I'm going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.

Dave Bautista (Drax the Destroyer) | Chris Pratt (Peter Quill / Star-Lord) | Bradley Cooper (Rocket) | Zoe Saldana (Gamora)

Aug

15

2015

Mess with the bull

From: Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie

Mess wit the bull, you're going to get the horns, Private.

Tom McGrath (Skipper)

Aug

12

2015

Most rare and beautiful

From: Mulan

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

Pat Morita (The Emperor)

Aug

02

2015

Know your shit

Kingsman: The Secret Service

From: Kingsman: The Secret Service

Oh-ho! You know your shit. –I sometimes envy the blissful ignorance of those less-well-versed in their... shit.

Samuel L. Jackson (Richmond Valentine) | Colin Firth (Harry Hart / Galahad)

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Going to Hell, from: Adventures In Babysitting
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Catholic whore, from: Kingsman: The Secret Service
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Profanity artist, from: A Christmas Story
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And I thought my jokes were bad, from: The Dark Knight
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The lie, from: The Maltese Falcon
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Patterns in Nature, from: Pi
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THX - Rain and Thunder, from: Miscellaneous
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It's not my problem, from: Blade Runner
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Small minds and bodies, from: The Brass Bottle
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Not going to work, from: Monsters University
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I never said 'thank you', from: Batman Begins
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Be the ball, from: Caddyshack
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Typical low-life, from: Stripes
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Scariest monsters, from: Monsters University
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Human arrogance, from: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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Transmitting message, from: Prometheus
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We have drugs that will make you talk, from: Where Eagles Dare
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We're just equipped, from: The Spirit
Views today: 0

Lean and mean, from: Caddyshack
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