Simile Quotes

87 quotes by 76 authors

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft… — Robert Cormier
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on… — Ned Beauman
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence… — Norton Juster
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself… — Christina, Queen of Sweden
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always… — Robert Cormier
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. — Steve Martin
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and… — Salman Rushdie
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. — Jonathan Swift
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. — Tim Vine
He's like a drug for you, Bella. — Stephenie Meyer
A house without books is like a room without windows. — Horace Mann
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. — Daniel Handler
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is… — Margaret Atwood
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks

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