#paraphrase

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #simile #simile

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#libraries #paraphrased #library

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. ↗

— Cathy Hopkins

#diet

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#paraphrased #dreams

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

There is no God and we are his prophets. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#paraphrased #religion #religion

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#paraphrased #charity

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

#arrogance #because #better #certain #feel