#simile

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #simile




Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.


Osip Mandelstam


#poetry #simile #simile

Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical.


Rachel Hill


#boys #chocolate #girls #humor #manga

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.


Richelle Mead


#death

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.


Juliet Marillier


#music #simile #love

... Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved.


Annie Proulx


#simile #love

Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#face #faces #hair #personal-appearance #simile

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.


Edsger W. Dijkstra


#artificial-intelligence #computer-science #simile #intelligence

Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast


Karen Foxlee


#beauty

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.


John Callahan


#humor #sex #simile #funny

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.


Will Christopher Baer


#simile #life