“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
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
“Her brown eyes flashed like headlamps on a police cruiser, cameras at a Superbowl kickoff, lightning over Frankenstein’s castle.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And "blue" again,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“The two of them talked in medical babble while I sat there feeling as useful as a gorilla at a spelling bee.” — Renae Kaye Copy Share Image
“Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his… — Dennis Vickers 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
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Seeing him and thinking he'd join us for dinner tonight only to hear his peremptory Esco taught me there are certain wishes… — André Aciman 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
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
“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie 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
