Simile Quotes

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

~ Lisa Kleypas

...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.

~ John Piper

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

~ Jonathan Swift

He stopped the flyersAnd by his rare example made the cowardTurn terror into sport. As weeds beforeA vessel under sail, so men obeyedAnd fell below his stem. His sword, Death's stamp,Where it did mark, it took; from face to footHe was a thing of blood, whose every motionWas timed with dying cries. Alone he enteredThe mortal gate o' th' city, which he paintedWith shunless destiny; aidless came offAnd with a sudden reinforcement struckCorioles like a planet. Now all's his,When by and by the dim of war gan pierceHis ready sense; then straight his doubled spiritRequickened what in flesh was fatigate,And to the battle came he, where he didRun reeking o'er the lives of men as if'Twere a perpetual spoil; and till we calledBoth field and city ours, he never stoodTo ease his breast with panting.

~ William Shakespeare

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?

~ Mervyn Peake

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

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

~ Gregory Maguire

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

~ Louise Erdrich

I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion. I look at him and I start aching so deep inside it takes all I can to think, to breathe, to speak. He’s like the brightest flame and it takes everything in me to resist its call.I know that if I give in, I’ll get burned so deeply, there might be nothing left once I come out the other side.But, god, I want to step into that flame.

~ D.l. Hess

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

~ David Brin

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.

~ Laini Taylor

A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was like a waiting room where they kept not calling your name.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and one fees it always. Nagging. Nagging.

~ Eleanor Catton

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

~ Roman Payne

She had the world’s worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

~ Jojo Moyes

Love is like the human appendix. You take it for granted while it's there, but when it's suddenly gone you're forced to endure horrible pain that can only be alleviated through drugs.

~ Reverend Jen

I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine. His head fell back. He closed his eyes, then opened them. 'Come on, you know . . . you're just high as fuck.' Then in a dramatic whisper: 'Everything goes silent like a midnight of the mind.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

~ Terry Pratchett

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

~ Laurie Lee

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

~ Dennis Vickers

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

~ Lemony Snicket

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

~ Zak Ebrahim

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

~ David Sedaris

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

~ Thomas Hardy

It seemed my wholelife was composed of these disjointedfractions of time, hanging around in onepublic place and then another, as if I werewaiting for trains that never came. And, likeone of those ghosts who are said to lingeraround depots late at night, askingpassersby for the timetable of the MidnightExpress that derailed twenty years before, Iwandered from light to light until thatdreaded hour when all the doors closed and,stepping from the world of warmth andpeople and conversation overheard, I feltthe old familiar cold twist through my bonesagain and then it was all forgotten, thewarmth, the lights; I had never been warmin my life, ever.

~ Donna Tartt

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

~ Terry Pratchett

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

~ Zora Neale Hurston

The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

~ Haruki Murakami

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.

~ Neal Shusterman

...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

~ Anne Rivers Siddons

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

~ Olivia Sudjic

I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.

~ Laura Carstairs-Waters

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.

~ Rick Riordan