...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and…

“In one breath, I release all negative feelings and fearful thoughts, then fill up my lungs with wonder and awe and pure, unadulterated joy.”

— Sara Baysinger

“Curiosity = Wonder + Awe”

— Chip Conley

“Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

— Roger Scruton

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

— Dorothy Thompson

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

— Robert South

“The train’s doors closed with a matron’s shush.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.”

— George Saunders

Similes, metaphors and we pop pills. Sick flow inundated with the doc bills. Work hard, now we know how to top bills; in the…

— Nicki Minaj

“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer…

— Brad Leithauser

“If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. You're also…

— Paul Graham

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda”

— Chris Ware

“The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.”

— Raymond Chandler