Browse 443 quotes about Simile.
“A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.”
Source: This Census-Taker
“You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.”
Source: What Happens in New York
“717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!”
Source: The Bees
“Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at the service station, and this without any forewarning borborygmus.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Her brown eyes flashed like headlamps on a police cruiser, cameras at a Superbowl kickoff, lightning over Frankenstein’s
castle.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with an unlikely Oscar.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Tourists hurried past them on the pedestrian-only street like chickens scampering to the feeder, cars scurrying through a tollgate, Niagara River rushing into the falls.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“She pinched her lips tight together, like someone considering a foul smell, three-legged dog, ugly baby.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high noon, French fries under the heat lamp at McDonald’s.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“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.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Ditched like an unwanted cat, worn-out tire, ugly blind date.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“A surprising number, like options in the cereal aisle, liberal studies graduates working fast food, people who don’t know Shakespeare coined the phrase break the ice.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Breathed like a contestant in a polka marathon, sit-up contest, stationary bike race.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Snatched away like socks glommed off the sale table at Wal-Mart, dog treat snapped up by an eager German Sheppard, mouse picked off the lawn by a swooping owl.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball game.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Disappeared like fog in a stiff morning breeze, teen revilers when a squad car creeps up the driveway, roaches when the kitchen light comes on.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba section of a marching band.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“He yawned like a black bear coming out of hibernation.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”
Source: The Antelope Wife
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“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.”
Source: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“... 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.”
Source: Brokeback Mountain
“The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.”
Source: Life.exe
“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.”
Source: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...”
Source: Sweetwater Creek
“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.”
Source: And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime
“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.”
Source: Kraken
“His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.”
Source: Maniac Magee
“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.”
Source: Red Rider's Hood
“The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.”
Source: Startide Rising
“Lugh's decided to stick with bein mad at me. It's like traveling with a storm cloud. One of them that hangs low an heavy. The kind that builds an broods an keeps on buildin an brood in till everybody's got a sick headache.”
Source: Rebel Heart
“Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies”
Source: Escape From The Forbidden Planet
“Hung in the air like fart gas in an elevator, insecurity in a prom ballroom, guilt around a police lineup.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul