21 Analogy Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

A selection of analogy quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 Yeah. He's sitting by the phone like a dumbbell just waiting for you to call him back.

Sharon Stone as Ginger McKenna in Casino (1995)

2 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

3 If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

4 The silence before you strike and the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up, like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.

Oliver Reed as Proximo in Gladiator (2000)

5 Hey, lad! That be better sport than riding a humpback whale in a hurricane! Ha, ha, ha!

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

6 Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

7 I'd like to quit thinking of the present like, right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else.

Jason London as Randall "Pink" Floyd in Dazed and Confused (1993)

8 We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.

Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup in A Few Good Men

9 You two look like Optimus Prime ran you through a laser-powered trash compactor!

Frank Welker as Megatron in The Transformers (1984)

10 The blackness of my belt is like the inside of a coffin on a moonless night. -That's pretty black, man.

Chris Rock as Haru The Great White Ninja in Beverly Hills Ninja