“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
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with.… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens 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
“Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies” — Julie Anne Grasso Copy Share Image
We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for… — Marcel Proust 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
“Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high… — Dennis Vickers 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
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of… — Anonymous 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
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
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
