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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
— Winston S. Churchill
Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
— Susanna Clarke
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
— Carl Hiaasen
Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.
— Jay M. Bylsma
My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.
— Emily Murdoch
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
— Neil Gaiman
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
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
And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
— David Levithan
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
Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain
— Zora Neale Hurston
Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.
— Emma Smith
Screamed like a manic cheerleader heaping encouragement on her high school's punt returner as he breaks through the first wall of blocks.
— Dennis Vickers
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
— Charles Dickens
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.
— J.K. Rowling
Hung in the air like fart gas in an elevator, insecurity in a prom ballroom, guilt around a police lineup.
— Dennis Vickers
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.
— Terry Pratchett
My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
I lock away the things that do not serve me. — Tahereh Mafi
I lock away the things that do not serve me. — Tahereh Mafi
Polish the young woman's ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.
— Dennis Vickers
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.
— Chris Baty
The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place: that is the simile which describes a yogi of one-pointed mind, who meditates upon the Atman.
— Swami Vivekananda
And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.
— Richelle Mead
Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance
— Dalai Lama XIV
She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Earle had friendly written all over him the way that a plague rat had "Hug Me" emblazoned on its fur.
— John Connolly
Her mighty eyebrow rose like a kite catching the wind, flock of geese fleeing a shotgun blast, excursion balloon departing carnival grounds.
— Dennis Vickers
T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
— Charles De Lint
And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.
— Will Christopher Baer
The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.
— Rick Riordan
She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi
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
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
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
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
For God himself the height of feeling free
Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me. — Robert Frost
Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me. — Robert Frost
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
— Sarah Addison Allen
The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.
— Dennis Vickers
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
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
— Christopher Moore
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
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
— Sophia Loren
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 company's stock dropped like seagull turds on a car hood, panties on prom night, celebrity names during red-carpet coverage.
— Dennis Vickers
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
— Elizabeth Wein
The email appeared sometime during the night, like alcohol-induced depression, dreams of old lovers, porn on TV.
— Dennis Vickers
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
— Neil Gaiman
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
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
— George McWhirter
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
Girl: The kid buys a new tie and you curse him like he was Ramsay MacDonald.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof.
— Dennis Vickers
The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.
— Dennis Vickers