History Quotes / Metaphorgotten

->''It usually comes to you in the night. Like a lover, or a burglar. You either get it, or it steals all your jewelry and you have to run it down and stab it in the heart. And... that metaphor got away from me, didn't it?''

->''Once upon a time there was [[TheFarmerAndTheViper a scorpion and a frog]]. The scorpion tells the frog "When I say 'jump' I don’t want to hear 'how high?' That means you're not jumping!" Then the frog says "It's my nature!" Well, be that as it may, we have a lot of tests to do and you are taking a long time on these catwalks and, yes, I broke out of the parable somewhere back there. But the point stands that you need to put some muscle back into your hustle, son.''

->''Well... good! Good! Finally! A nemesis worthy of my ''[[FeigningIntelligence vast]]'' intellect! [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Holmes vs. Moriarty!]] ...Creator/{{Aristotle}} vs. ''[[BuffySpeak MASHY SPIKE-PLATE!]]

->''The puppet master! You're a puppet in a play, and I hold all the strings! And cards, still. Cards in one hand, strings in the other. And I'm making you dance like a puppet. Playing cards.''

-> '''[=McElroy=]''':''”Fucker keeps stealin’ victors, man. Steals ‘em and crashes ‘em. That shit ain’t cool, man.”''
-> '''Soldier''': ''“Yeah? Well what’re you gonna do to stop him?”''
-> '''[=McElroy=]''': ''“Fuckin’ let him try it, man. I’ll shove a SAW up his ass so far it’ll… he’ll have to… I’ll shove it REALLY far up there man!”''

-->--''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted''

-->--''Series/DontHugMeImScared''

-->--'''General''',''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', “Military Science Fiction”

-->--''Webcomic/{{Hackbent}}''

-->--'''[=DeepBlueNemo=]''', ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/suffsc/roasting_every_presidents_supporters/ Roasting Every President's Supporters]]'' in [[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope /r/tnomod]] on Website/{{Reddit}}

-->--'''Dr. Green Z. Hill''', ''WebVideo/RealTimeFanDub'', [[Videogame/UntilDawn "Until Dawn - Part 1"]]

->''It's curtains for you, Doctor Horrible. Lacy, gently wafting curtains.''
-->-- '''Captain Hammer''', ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog''

->''It's curtains for you, Doctor Horrible. Lacy, gently wafting curtains.''
-->-- '''Captain Hammer''', ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog''

-> I need to talk to you about these snail trails. They're random, right? But are they? ''[[FreudWasRight Are]]'' they? I mean, look at it! This isn't like where you type the word "monkey" a million times and then it's...uh...You take a typewriter, and you put a monkey on it-in it... No, there's a lot of typewriters, alright? And there's a lot of monkeys...And they're all drawing d[BLEEP]cks in the sand.

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->''"War is just like chess. You make your move, then wait politely for the enemy to make his. Then war support dries up at home and all your freaking pawns dodge the draft!"''
-->--'''General''',''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', “Military Science Fiction”
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-->--''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

-->--''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

'''Kiritsugu''': One big crazy bag of marbles. Blue marbles. Red marbles. Half transparent marbles with a fun swirl in them. Some marbles are even more interesting. [[Anime/FateZero Some marbles you think are going to be limited edition with king designs, but then they're the equally limited but much more surprising female king marble. Some argue that's debatably rarer. I argue that's anxiety inducing. Some like to abduct smaller marbles, then you gotta shoot that marble 'cause it's marble buddy brought a really big black tentacle marble. Marbles sure are random. Especially when you force them into wheelchairs, hold other marbles for ransom, forge a magical pact with a marble that forces you to watch as they grovel in pain on the ground, begging for the sweet release of marble death. But you can't. Because you signed a magical marble pact. And you can only watch as its last marble breath escapes its marble lips.]]\\

-->-- Gamestop commercial for ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->''The real saying is "If the wind blows, the bucket maker has good sales." Which means that sneezing is proof of you being cursed by someone. In order to get rid of that curse, you need to obtain a straw doll. Additionally, you need long nails, which in turn leads to a lot of business for nail makers, causing a supply shortage. As a result, construction of houses becomes almost impossible, and everybody has to live in pit-like dwellings. That in turn leads to less wood being used, and less forests being cut down. Because the forests are being protected, the [=CO2=] levels are reduced, and everybody is happy because of an environmentally responsible lifestyle.''

->'''Rath''': [[CatchPhrase Let me tell you something,]] [[FullNameUltimatum Manny Armstrong]]! You want a piece of Rath? You got a piece! But you just bit off a piece bigger than your stomach can chew!\\
'''Manny''': [[LampshadeHanging That made no sense.]]\\
'''Rath''': (''{{Beat}}'') [[BlatantLies I KNOW!]]

->''Ninjas do wrong to each other sometimes, and in that way, the force of the earth comes around the moon, and at that presence, the dirt, it overshadows the grass, so you like "I can't cut this grass; there's no sun coming through." So in order to enable each other, the two fruits have to look each other in the eye, understand we can only be ripe as the ripe is wrong. You know what I mean?''

->''An elephant never forgets, but I forget what the elephant remembered.''

->''Sure, I can help you, but we might have to metaphorically make a {{deal with the devil}}. And by "devil," I mean "[[SpaceX Robot Devil]]." And by "metaphorically," I mean [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey "get your coat."]]''

->''If we can hit the bulls-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. ''Checkmate''.''

->''Like they say in Brooklyn: early to bed, early to catch the worm. [[MemeticMutation Or... is it the bagel?]]''

->''It appears that the glove...is on the other shoe.''

->'''Mung''': Chowder, life is like food, and sometimes we bite off more life than we can chew. Next thing you know, you're barfing life all over the place! The beds, the walls, the priceless carpet; and who do you think has to clean up all that life?
->'''Chowder''': Schnitzel?
->'''Mung''': That's right.
->'''Schnitzel (offscreen)''': Aw, radda!
->'''Mung''': Yes, life can be a real mess, so keep a bucket nearby.
->'''Chowder''': I'm...going to bed now.
->'''Mung''': Yes, go to bed, Chowder... I'M SERIOUS ABOUT THAT BUCKET!

-->-- ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''

-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''[[Machinima/FreemansMind Freeman's Mind]]''

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Hackbent}}''

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->''I always thought swimming was [[JustLikeMakingLove kinda like doing somebody.]] You dive in, flop around a bit, and you either get booed or somebody gives you a medal. And then I found out swimming isn't like that at all. You can't [[CargoShip have sex with]] [[NoodleIncident your neighbor's above-ground backyard pool]]... What was I talking about?''

->I mean, I'm obviously going to inevitably write myself into the story later, and it's going to be incredibly fucking self-indulgent. I'm going to be handing out indulgences like a sixteenth-century Catholic clergyman. Except I’ll be handing them all to myself. Indulging myself all over the damn place. Martin Luther's going to have to come over here himself and bust my popish ass for it. I guess what I'm saying, Jane, is that I'm directly responsible for the Protestant Reformation.

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->''You know, people say you should just play the hand you've been dealt in life. You know what? [[ScrewDestiny Fuck that.]] I say that if you get a dealt a bad hand, you [[RageQuit throw out your cards]], [[FlippingTheTable flip the table]], pull a gun on the dealer and start shooting... life, I guess.''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''[[Machinima/FreemansMind Freeman's Mind]]''

->maybe in a sense, the Caramella Girls are the modern incarnation of Caramell. they've just been [[TheseusShipParadox Ship-of-Theseused]] into [[RevolvingDoorBand a lineup that no longer has any of their original members]]. except it's not really like the Ship of Theseus. it's more like if you were to disassemble a ship one piece at a time, but instead of replacing those parts as you take them out, the ship is just left without those parts, and eventually, the ship is completely gone. but then a few years later, [[JustForFun/CaramelldansenVid a song]] created by the Ship of Theseus [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff becomes a big meme in Japan]], and in response, the guy who owns the rights to the Ship of Theseus, who is not Theseus, decides to make a new ship, the Thesea Girls, in order to appeal to this demographic that enjoys works made by this old ship that no longer exists.