Simile Quotes
Nicholas Sparks
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
4445 Steve Martin
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
4739 Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
1980 Nicholas Sparks
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.
4323 Lemony Snicket
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.
2349 Lemony Snicket
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.
4557 Rick Riordan
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
2238 Chris Baty
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.
4905 Fridik Erlings
The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.
2358 Jasper Fforde
The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.
1659 Mae West
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.
3625 Jodi Picoult
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
4458 Fulton J. Sheen
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
4170 Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
1520 John Callahan
Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
2342 Leslie What
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
4774 Osip Mandelstam
Where to start?
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one world's better than another;
the earth moans with metaphors.
3619 Terry Pratchett
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
2713 David Archuleta
Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.
4055 Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows.
3499 John Green
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.
1626 Katharine Graham
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.
4839 Raymond Chandler
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.
1144 Sophia Loren
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
3420 John Green
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
4390 Chet Raymo
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
3127 John Piper
A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.
1704 Catherine Coulter
You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.
2181 Sara Sheridan
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.
1884 Stephen Moles
The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.
2613 Julie Anne Grasso
Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies
1268 Patrick Rothfuss
She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
4467 Dennis Vickers
Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.
1148 Juliet Marillier
His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
2215 Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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.
3866 Cormac McCarthy
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
1882 John Piper
...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
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