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Tag Name "Simile" (61)

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Never use a long word where a short one will do.
George Orwell
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
William Shakespeare
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
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Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
Roberto Bolano
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Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.
Terry Pratchett
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One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
Evelyn Waugh
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
Robert Burns
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Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.
Albert Brooks
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And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.
Richelle Mead
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier
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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
Ogden Nash
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Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Giannina Braschi
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I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Charles Dickens
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Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
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Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
George Orwell
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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Life is like a simile.
Terry Carr
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By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
George Orwell
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Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.
Dan Brown
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
John Green
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
Arthur C. Clarke
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