Simile Quotes - Page 2

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

John Piper

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.

Brandon Andress

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

Catherine Lacey

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

Jasper Fforde

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.

Fridik Erlings

The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Dexter Palmer

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.

Cormac McCarthy

The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

Stephen Moles

She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.

Sara Sheridan

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.

Catherine Coulter

Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.

Dennis Vickers

No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.

Ilias Oumarri

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Jonathan Franzen

My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with.

Catherine Lacey

You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.

Eduardo C. Corral

How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-

Kevin Young

T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.

Charles de Lint

It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that characterized every patio in Arizona, the piano, the trees combed by wind. A prelude to a storm. It was like discovering the secret room in a dream of your house that holds all the magic. It was music I wished I lived inside. Around us, cactus, hills filled with jumping cholla, the heat of August like another animal heaving over us.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

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

Juliet Marillier

717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!

Laline Paull

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

Elena Ferrante

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

John Green

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

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 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

Night-time is being 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

That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could never get to the meaning at the bottom of any of the bits. When I reached for the petals of the roses, I was touching a metal seatbelt buckle in a coach, driving by night through a remote place, with a band of mist running parallel to the glass I leant against.

Olivia Sudjic

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

Catherine Lacey

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

Catherine Lacey

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

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

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Dexter Palmer

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

John Green

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There was a graduate student in my cohort, this guy I dated, who told me he came to realize that doing physics is like this: there's a concrete wall twenty feet thick, and you're on one side, and on the other side is everything worth knowing. And all you have is a spoon. So you just have to take a spoon and start scraping at the wall: no other way. He works in a bookstore now.But I think of it this way. There is a jigsaw puzzle. It's infinitely large, with no edges or corners to help you out. We have to put it together: it's our duty. We will never finish, but we have to find our satisfactions where we can: when we place two pieces together that suggest we may have found the place where the sky touches the sea, or when we discover a piece that is beautiful in and of itself, that has an unusual color or a glimpse of an unexpected pattern. And the pieces that do not join together also tell you something. If there are very few eureka moments, then at least there are a thousand little failures, that point the way toward a hundred little joys.

Dexter Palmer

As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on fire. Hmm. Come to think of it, in no way whatsoever did the sun, in this instance, resemble a leaky boat. My apologies. That was a dreadful attempt at simile. Please allow me to try again. As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a self-luminous, gaseous sphere comprised mainly of of hydrogen and helium.

Cuthbert Soup

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Leslie What

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Bill Maher

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dexter Palmer

Cuthbert Soup

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Leslie What

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Bill Maher

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Terry Pratchett

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

Criss Jami

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

David Archuleta

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

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Amit Kalantri

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

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Jodi Picoult

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

Rick Riordan

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Lemony Snicket

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

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