Great Simile Quotes

#1. It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped like mountain peaks in the sky, rays emanating downward like an illustration in a children's bible.

Christina Baker Kline

#2. [H]e looked like a real bruiser as he stepped from his car, his big sunglasses giving the impression that a large bug had evolved to the point that it could wear a suit.

John Connolly

#3. A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

Phoebe Stone

#4. It's always funny until someone loses a testicle.

Bob N. Boguslavski

#5. Your promises are worth nothing.

Marie Rutkoski

#6. I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

Matthew Rhys

#7. God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

Billy Graham

#8. If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

Michael Schenker

#9. Momijii Sohma: Kyo's got the hots!!

Natsuki Takaya

#10. 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

#11. Earle had friendly written all over him the way that a plague rat had "Hug Me" emblazoned on its fur.

John Connolly

#12. Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?" the lady asked, awed at the queen's adventures. "No, I am no longer afraid of life.

Constance Jagodzinski

#13. Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.

Frank Herbert

#14. He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dressed in brown polyester pants, cheap brown shoes, and a light tan shirt. He looked like someone had put a wig on a giraffe and run it through the local Target.

John Connolly

#15. When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.

Ayn Rand

#16. I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity

Avinash Advani

#17. We were always dead against the war.

Bertie Ahern