Metaphor Simile Quotes

#1. In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Edward M. Lerner

#2. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Neil Gaiman

#3. loved a man for years who said her eyes looked like the ocean, because she always wanted to be somebody's poem, somebody's simile, somebody's lackluster metaphor.

Trista Mateer

#4. I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. I want to be a metaphor.

China Mieville

#5. 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.

Neal Shusterman

#6. TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

Gail Porter

#7. A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

James Geary

#8. One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

Ogden Nash

#9. 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 Peake

#10. If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Ian Anderson

#11. The moon features frequently as a simile for beauty (and indeed Budur's name means 'moons'). Beautiful women are conventionally compared to gazelles. It was more common to evoke beauty through metaphor and simile than by close physical description.

Malcolm C. Lyons

#12. The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

Northrop Frye

#13. When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place.

Conor Oberst

#14. Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu ... was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett

#15. At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt to its precise application to tease the mind into active thought.

C. H. Dodd

#16. The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

F.L. Lucas

#17. And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

David Mitchell

#18. Seriously, is this what the rest of my life is going to be? i don't think i signed up for this.

David Levithan

#19. A metaphor is like a simile.

Steven Wright

#20. I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

Tim Vine

#21. They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

Angel Cox

#22. 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

#23. Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

Salman Rushdie

#24. When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.

Leigh Newman

#25. I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

Damon Lindelof

#26. It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#27. ...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

Anne Rivers Siddons

#28. I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Alan Garner

#29. Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Zora Neale Hurston