Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert EinsteinLove is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas SparksThe question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. DijkstraTags: simile artificial-intelligence ai computer-science
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Frank ZappaTags: simile open-mindedness
He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.
Cassandra ClareTags: simile
I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?
Margaret AtwoodTags: simile secrets metaphor margaret-atwood the-blind-assassin
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
Neil GaimanTags: paraphrased simile macabre
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan SwiftA novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.
Chris BatyTags: writing simile on-writing rough-drafts
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
Leslie WhatTags: simile literature funny wilderness hermit
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