Simile quotations

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

- Steve Martin99

◆ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

- Jonathan Swift98

◆ Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

- Terry Pratchett98

◆ 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 Coulter98

◆ A friend... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.

- Andrea Cremer98

◆ A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

- Chris Baty98

◆ And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

- Christopher Moore98

◆ I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

- Sophie Jordan98

◆ 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 Graham98

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

- Leslie What98

◆ Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

- Edward O. Wilson98

◆ And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

- Mervyn Peake98

◆ The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

- Sarah Addison Allen98

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

- David Archuleta98

◆ Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.

- Emma Smith98