Metaphors quotes

“If ifs and buts where candies and nuts, we'd all have a very merry christmas.”
Charlize Theron - Libby Day

“Every step that moves in the right direction ... is a goal in itself ... after all life is all about the next step.”
Varun Dhawan - Suresh

“People who live in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.”
Tom Hardy - Ronald Kray

“For those of you who don't know, Staten Island is like Brooklyn and New Jersey had a baby. A baby that would up to be either a cop, or a fireman. And you know, some how it gets a bad rap, but really it's just like any other suburb.”

Graham Phillips - Danny Campbell

Another wave says to him, "Why do you look so sad?". And the little waves says, "Because we're gonna crash. All us waves are gonna be nothin', don't ya understand?". And the other wave says, "You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean".

Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“They don't kill you unless you light them. And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. A metaphor.”
Ansel Elgort - Gus

“If life is a race, you beat me to the finish. But if life is a boxing match, I'm the last one standing.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“- Rosie: Listen. Listen, take your father here. What's his favorite food?
- Rosie, Mollie: Cheesecake.
- Rosie: What did Dr. Slocum tell him?
- Mollie: Cut back on cholesterol.
- Rosie: So, now he doesn't eat cheesecake. It's the same exact thing.”

Olympia Dukakis - Rosie
Kirstie Alley - Mollie

“Chess is basically a search for truth, right?”
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher

“- Tim Lockwood: Not every sardine was meant to swim, son.
- Young Flint: I don't understand fishing metaphors!”
James Caan - Tim Lockwood
Max Neuwirth - Young Flint

“If men are dogs, what the goddamn hell does that make women? You've ever seen a bitch in heat? She will grind herself across the grass to try and get her that itch. And she can find a way to sneak out of the backyard, as any dog will do.”
Russell Crowe - Mayor Hostetler

“When there is a storm and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Hugh Glass' Wife

“There's two hungry dogs, you and me.”
János Derzsi - Homeless

“There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.”
Clark Gregg

“They rip your heart out of your ass!”

Carmen Filpi - Old Man in Bar

“- Jim's Dad: It's like banging a tennis ball against a brick wall, which can be fun. It can be fun, but it's not a game.
- Jim Levenstein: Right.
- Jim's Dad: It's not a game.
- Jim Levenstein: No.
- Jim's Dad: What you want is a partner to return the ball.”

Eugene Levy - Jim's Dad
Jason Biggs - Jim Levenstein

“It's like riding a bicycle... upside down.”

Diane Keaton - Bridget Cardigan

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my submarine lair. It's long, hard and full of seamen!
[laughs, then notices he isn't getting any laughs from his submarine crew]
No? Nothing? Not even a titter? Tough sub...”
Mike Myers - Dr. Evil

“- Lou Redwood: Well, he sat on the bench, right? I mean, if you watch a porn movie, doesn't mean you got laid.
- Dick Pepperfield: No. No, in fact it often means the opposite.”

Will Arnett - Lou Redwood
Andrew Daly - Dick Pepperfield

- Jeff Dunham: Walter, what exactly is marriage to you?
- Walter: It's like drinking a slurpy.
- Jeff Dunham: A slurpy.
- Walter: First couple of sips, it's like "boy this is really good! I'm glad I did this!". Then you keep drinking, it goes right to your head, and you go "ow, ow, ooooow! What the hell was I thinking? Someone kill me please!".
Jeff Dunham - Himself
Jeff Dunham - Walter

“- Mox: The male erection? Pitchin' a tent, sportin' a wood, the icicle if formed, the march is on…
- Miss Davis: That's good...
- Mox: Stiff, stiffie, Mr. Mortis, rigor mortis has set in, flesh rocket, Jack's magic beanstalk, tall Tommy, mushroom on a stick, Mr. Mushroomhead, purple-headed yogurt slinger... and, uh, Pedro.”

James Van Der Beek - Mox
Tonie Perensky - Miss Davis

“I Iike to think of it...The metaphor of when you have a deviated septum and you can't breathe? You have to break the nose in order to fix it.”

Steve Carrell - Doctor Feld

“Boy, you mix drinks as bad as you mix metaphors, you'd be out of a job.”

Chris Cooper - Sam

“In every relationship, there's a bull and a cow. It just so happens that in this relationship, right here with me and you, I'm the bull, you're the cow.”

Ben Affleck - Larry Gigli

“I love your sweater. Does that come in a V-neck?”

Paul Rudd - David