Simile Quotes

87 quotes by 76 authors

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle… — Nicholas Sparks
The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. — Rick Riordan
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. — Christopher Moore
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of… — Honore de Balzac
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own… — Ray Bradbury
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. — Osip Mandelstam
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. — Raymond Chandler
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. — Cassandra Clare
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it. — Mae West
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and imagesâ€¦ It is not a conscious recording of… — William Carlos Williams
Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance — Dalai Lama
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a… — China Mieville
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to moveâ€¦similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your… — Honore de Balzac
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. — Madeline Miller
When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force… — Terry Pratchett
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to… — Anna Quindlen

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