Simile Quotes
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Washed-out like last year's swimsuit.
— Dennis Vickers
The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
— Susanna Clarke
Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
— David Foster Wallace
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
— Carl Hiaasen
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
— Neil Gaiman
His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
— Juliet Marillier
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
— Cormac McCarthy
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
A good simile,as concise as a king's declaration of love. — Laurence Sterne
You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.
— Kristina Adams
Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.
— Dennis Vickers
Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.
— Dennis Vickers
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
— George R R Martin
Her brown eyes flashed like headlamps on a police cruiser, cameras at a Superbowl kickoff, lightning over Frankenstein'scastle. — Dennis Vickers
And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend
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weird — Lisa Schroeder
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
— Andrew Lang
Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.
— Dennis Vickers
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
— Leslie What
Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.
— Emma Smith
A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.
— Roman Payne
I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.
— Vanora Bennett
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.
— Lemony Snicket
Girl: The kid buys a new tie and you curse him like he was Ramsay MacDonald.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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.
— Catherine Coulter
It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.
— Cornelia Funke
Disappeared like fog in a stiff morning breeze, teen revilers when a squad car creeps up the driveway, roaches when the kitchen light comes on.
— Dennis Vickers
Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.
— Louise Erdrich
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
— Christopher Moore
He's like a drug for you, Bella.
— Stephenie Meyer
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
— George McWhirter
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
— John Mayer
Life is like a simile.
— Terry Carr
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
— Sophia Loren
...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...
— Anne Rivers Siddons
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
— Neil Gaiman
The email appeared sometime during the night, like alcohol-induced depression, dreams of old lovers, porn on TV.
— Dennis Vickers
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
— Elizabeth Wein
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
— James J. Kilpatrick
The company's stock dropped like seagull turds on a car hood, panties on prom night, celebrity names during red-carpet coverage.
— Dennis Vickers
Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.
— Dennis Vickers
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
— Raymond Chandler
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
— George Orwell
Hung in the air like fart gas in an elevator, insecurity in a prom ballroom, guilt around a police lineup.
— Dennis Vickers
Vanished like inhibitions at a bachelorette party.
— Dennis Vickers
Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy.
— Dennis Vickers
Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.
— Dennis Vickers
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.
— Katharine Graham
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
— Sarah Addison Allen
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
— Raymond Chandler
Legs pinched together like bread loafs in a shared pan, linebackers in adjacent seats flying coach fare, chubby cats eating from a single dish.
— Dennis Vickers
Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
— Thomas Hardy
Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.
— Catherine Lacey
She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.
— Jojo Moyes
Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile.
— Zane Stumpo
There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.
— Dennis Vickers
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[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
— Jonathan Franzen
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
— Cassandra Clare
Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.
— Matthew De Abaitua
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
— Thomas Hardy
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
— George R R Martin
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
— William Shakespeare
It was darker than a carload of assholes.
— George V. Higgins
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
— Steve Martin
Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.
— Dennis Vickers
Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof.
— Dennis Vickers
Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.
— Dennis Vickers
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
— Jodi Picoult
The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Indian summer is like a woman.
— Grace Metalious
She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.
— Dennis Vickers
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
— Edward O. Wilson
Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his hive's back room.
— Dennis Vickers
For God himself the height of feeling freeMust have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me. — Robert Frost
There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.
— Samuel Beckett
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
— Nicholas Sparks
My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.
— Dennis Vickers
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.
— John Quincy Adams
Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
