“Snatched away like socks glommed off the sale table at Wal-Mart, dog treat snapped up by an eager German Sheppard, mouse picked… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out… — Olivia Sudjic 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
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing… — Catherine Coulter Copy Share Image
“A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Breathed like a contestant in a polka marathon, sit-up contest, stationary bike race.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self… — Lewis H. Lapham 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
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She met my gaze with those big, innocent eyes that could probably convince the devil he needed an extra blanket.” — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain” — Zora Neale Hurston 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
“Polish the young woman’s ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.” — Dennis Vickers 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
“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
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.” — Dennis Vickers 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
“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
