#Metaphors

Nov

2017

I don't watch TV

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)

#Television

#Liberals

#Metaphors

#Culture

#Disgust

#Life

#Condescension

Apr

2016

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

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)

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 / Star-Lord) | 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

#Poop

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

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