Simile Quotes

“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”
― Emma Smith

“You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“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

“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.”
― Anne Lamott

“Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.”
― Fiona Wood, Six Impossible Things

“It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.”
― Leslie What, Crazy Love

“The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”
― Sophie Jordan, Firelight

“Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it, it it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad, unless of course you keep going to SuperClips, where the hairstylists are so terrible they oughta be using safety scissors, and when they're done you look like your head got caught in a ceiling fan. So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it don't matter no more.
I told this wisdom to my mother, and she said I oughta put it in a book, then burn it. Some people just can't appreciate the profound.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here

“A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.”
― Phoebe Stone, The Romeo and Juliet Code

“I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“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

“A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.”
― David Sedaris

“We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Calamity

“My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
― James Joyce, Araby

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“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, Live Nude Elf

“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, Sugar Daddy

“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.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“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.”
― Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.”
― Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters

“And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.
Having a ghost boyfriend
WAS
weird”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.”
― Doug Walker

“The pain wasn’t tidal. That was the lesson of the dream which was really a memory. The pain only appeared to come and go. The pain was like the piling, sometimes covered and sometimes visible, but always there.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.”
― Tana French, The Secret Place

“His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.”
― Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters