Simile Quotes
Simile Quote of the day
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.
A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.
Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
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 where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
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.
Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.
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 success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
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 some level is quite hard.
