Prop metaphors

"Hanging around the hoop"

"That's a slam dunk"

"Sorry, but this isn't basketball, And I'm not your rebound."

"Nothing but net."

"Air ball."

"Where words fail, music speaks"

"It is little rift within the lute, that by and by will make the music mute, and ever widening slowly silence all."

"As sweet, and musical, as bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; and when Love speaks, the voice of gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony." 

"In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain."

Cornucopia symbolizes the womb.

The corn of plenty

The mother's bounty

Abundance of ideas

Cornucopia of choices

"Smile, you're on camera."

"The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet."

"The camera adds ten pounds"

"Either the camera will dance or I will.

"The camera relieves us the of the burden of memory."

"A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar you pretend it's not there."

"Emotional baggage."

"It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life."

"Suitcase of problems."

"Life is a journey."

"Keep calm and pack."

Umbrella symbolizes unity.

"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof."

"The mind is an umbrella, it works better when opened."

"As thin and neat as a furled umbrella."

"My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt."

"Ace in the hole."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game."

"It's a house of cards."

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."

"Red telephone a.k.a the hotline"

"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."

"Communication is key."

"It has become appallingly obvious that technology had exceeded our humanity."

"Technological process has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"The internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."

"Gossip is nature's telephone."

"Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you''ll ever regret."
"To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men."
"I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life."
"The little red book is the tool of the Cultural Revolution."
"In such ugly times, the only true beauty is protest."