Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter Copy Share Image
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Her young lover changed positions, grabbed her and pulled her rear up high . . . went inside her at a brand-new… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
“Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. Bernard of the metaphysical,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
“The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only other light was the… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
