Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.” — Laini Talyor Copy Share Image
“Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Screamed like a manic cheerleader heaping encouragement on her high school’s punt returner as he breaks through the first wall of blocks.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“Tourists hurried past them on the pedestrian-only street like chickens scampering to the feeder, cars scurrying through a tollgate, Niagara River rushing… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying?' 'Ye-es.' Now that I had spilled the beans I could take on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like being on a commuter train… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“As I tried to doze, the incident on the piazzetta, lost somewhere amid the Piave war memorial and our ride up the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“They . . . had been slugging it out like Rihanna and Chris Brown on repeat . . .” — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
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