#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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Top 20 Quotes - Today

The old saying, from: A Charlie Brown Valentine
Views today: 7

We're not low, from: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Views today: 6

Need a bigger boat, from: Jaws
Views today: 5

The 20th Century Fox theme, from: Miscellaneous
Views today: 5

Useless dookie!, from: Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus
Views today: 5

Squirrel!, from: Up
Views today: 5

Bad influence, from: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone
Views today: 4

If this thing blows up, from: The Sting
Views today: 4

THX - Rain and Thunder, from: Miscellaneous
Views today: 4

Singing show tunes, from: Duckman: Private Dick / Family Man
Views today: 4

Carried this too far, from: Rebel Rabbit
Views today: 4

Son-of-a-bitch must pay, from: Big Trouble In Little China
Views today: 4

You're a tremendous slouch, from: Caddyshack
Views today: 4

This picture's over right now, from: Road To Utopia
Views today: 4

Rankin-Bass Audio Logo, from: Miscellaneous
Views today: 4

I think you're late, from: Green Lantern
Views today: 3

The spewing of bile, from: Duckman: Private Dick / Family Man
Views today: 3

I know how he felt, from: Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Views today: 3

He's a big baby, from: Leave It To Beaver
Views today: 3

Decent people, from: Batman (1989)
Views today: 3

Top 20 Shows (since 2012)

Archer / Total views: 71,089

Family Guy / Total views: 34,556

Doctor Who (II) / Total views: 29,811

Sound Effects / Total views: 27,786

The Big Bang Theory / Total views: 26,805

Up / Total views: 26,183

Looney Tunes / Total views: 25,399

Blazing Saddles / Total views: 19,965

Babylon 5 / Total views: 19,273

2001: A Space Odyssey / Total views: 18,565

South Park / Total views: 17,293

Star Trek: The Original Series / Total views: 17,259

The Jetsons / Total views: 16,216

The Venture Bros. / Total views: 15,748

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (vinyl) / Total views: 14,240

Eight on the Lam / Total views: 13,262

The 6 Million Dollar Man / Total views: 13,225

Battlestar Galactica: The Original Series / Total views: 13,222

The Bullwinkle Show / Total views: 12,539

3rd Rock From The Sun / Total views: 12,435