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Simile Quotes by Rick Riordan
- I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
- The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.
More Simile Quotes
- Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie
- Thou hast the most unsavoury similes. — William Shakespeare
- Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from… — Ernest Hemingway
- 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
- A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — Unknown Author
- A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up. — James Geary
- I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead
- We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C.S. Lewis
- Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac
- I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. — Alan Garner
- When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov