#Metaphors

Apr

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)

#Metaphors

#Hunger

#Travel

#Life

#Experience

Apr

2016

The nail that gets hammered down

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)

#Condescension

#Destiny

#Metaphors

Apr

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)

#Metaphors

#Drugs

Feb

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) | Bradley Cooper (Rocket) | Zoe Saldana (Gamora)

#Language

#Metaphors

Aug

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)

#Metaphors

#Warnings

#Military

Aug

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

2015

Know your shit

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)

#Sarcasm

#Metaphors

Jun

2012

The vultures are gathering

From: McMillan & Wife

Yes, well the-- the vultures are gathering. I hope you understand that.

Richard Dawson (Roger Stambler)

#Death

#Metaphors

Apr

2011

Downwards is the only way forwards

From: Inception

Downwards is the only way forwards.

Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb)

#Philosophy

#Metaphors

Mar

2011

Broken wings mend in time

From: Batman Forever

Broken wings mend in time. One day Robin will fly again. I promise.

Michael Gough (Alfred Pennyworth)

Mar

2009

The appropriate metaphor

From: The Big Bang Theory

I believe the appropriate metaphor here involved a river of excrement and a Native American water vessel without any means of propulsion.

Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper)

Sep

2008

My mind is aglow

From: Blazing Saddles

My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. –Ditto!

Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamarr) | Slim Pickens (Taggart)

File Updated: 2017-03-03

Mar

2008

Ring any bells?

From: The Man

Does the expression 'No man is an island' ring any bells? –Does the expression 'Shut your ass up!' ring any bells?

Eugene Levy (Andy Fiddler) | Samuel L. Jackson (Derrick Vann)

Dec

2006

Piece of ripe fruit

From: What's Up, Doc?

Listen, what do you think I am, a piece of ripe fruit you can squeeze the juice out of and cast aside?

Barbra Streisand (Judy Maxwell)

Nov

2006

Let the sap run out

From: Horse Feathers

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Groucho Marx (Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff)

#Metaphors

#Insult

Sep

2006

He opens a window

From: Saved!

I keep trying to remind myself that when Jesus shuts a door, he opens a window. –Yeah, so we have something we can jump out of.

Mary-Louise Parker (Lillian) | Jena Malone (Mary)

#Religion

#Metaphors

#Sarcasm

Aug

2006

Making up History

From: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The Future, always so clear to me, had become like a black highway at night. We were in uncharted territory now, making up History as we went along.

Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor)

File Updated: 2015-05-16

Jun

2006

Don't assume zebras

From: Grey's Anatomy

Just because you hear hoof beats don't assume zebras.

Patrick Dempsey (Dr. Derek Shepherd)

#Metaphors

#Philosophy

Apr

2005

You'll get the horns

From: The Breakfast Club

Don't mess with the bull, young man, you'll get the horns.

Paul Gleason (Principal Richard Vernon)

#School

#Metaphors

#Warnings

Oct

2004

Harder to get a fork

From: Dead Like Me

You know, when you're young like you are, Millie, it's easy. Man, woman, bottom, top, sex is this big buffet and you're just a fat man with a fork. But as you get older, it's harder to get a fork.

Christine Willes (Delores Herbig)

Aug

2004

Crackers don't matter

From: Farscape

I need you to understand that crackers don't matter.

Ben Browder (John Crichton)

Jan

2004

Get to the Promised Land

From: King Jr., Martin Luther

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity, has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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