Quotes tagged ‘Metaphors’

(39 total)

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”

“My, what beautiful blossoms we have this year. But look, this one's late. But I'll bet that when it blooms, it will be the most beautiful of all.”

— Rita Hsiao, Fa Zhou (voice), Soon-Tek Oh, imdb.com

“No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.”

— Rita Hsiao, The Emperor (voice), Pat Morita, imdb.com

“You know, another layer of icing on a shit cake doesn't make it taste good.”

— Jenji Kohan, Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols, Natasha Lyonne, imdb.com

“The record is spinning again. We're just not on the song we wanna be on.”

— Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Daniel Faraday, Jeremy Davies, imdb.com

“Either you fit the jacket, or the jacket fits you.”

— Thomas Schnauz, Kim Wexler, Rhea Seehorn, imdb.com

“Suicide is the night train, speeding your way towards darkness. You won’t get there so fast, not by normal means. You take your ticket, and you climb on board. It’s a one-way ticket, but it costs everything that you have. It’s the night train.”

— Martin Amis, amazon.com

“I’m the rose that came from the concrete.”

— Cardi B, open.spotify.com

“My brain was a pinball machine, thoughts rapidly shooting back and forth.”

— Starina Catchatoorian, lennyletter.com

“Alex, I haven't had sex in eight months and twelve days. I'm horny, I'm half-naked, and I'm saying yes. Do you want to stand there and talk metaphors, or do you want to literally take off your pants?”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Izzie Stevens, Katherine Heigl, imdb.com

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“I'm more connected than the alphabet in cursive is.”

— Lil Ugly Mane, open.spotify.com

“The sea of history is where we all find ourselves, and language is an ancient invisible ship, a vessel by which we travel over all that we encounter.”

— Corey Anton, academia.edu

“People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

“It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no body else can see.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

“Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, amazon.com

“Baseball thinking is midevil. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say anything I get ostrisized. I'm a lepper.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

“Ok, think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players it should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins you have to buy runs.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

“There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what's really happening. This leaves those who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

“It's an unfair game. Now we've been gutted, organ donors for the rich. Bostons taking our kidneys. Yankee's taking our heart. You guys are taking the same old good body nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, amazon.com