Striking Simile Quotes

#1. Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.

Nancy Lublin

#2. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

N.H. Kleinbaum

#3. There is one thing dead people excel at. They're

Mary Roach

#4. If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up.

Daryl Gregory

#5. He gripped her so tightly she could barely breathe. Then he let go. He did it as if he was forcing himself, as if he were starving and he was putting aside the last piece of food he had. But he did it.

Cassandra Clare

#6. If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

Mother Teresa

#7. Cooper thanked his lucky stars that the sucker gene ran in the family.

Terri Osburn

#8. She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.

Cassandra Clare

#9. National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

#10. The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

#11. I did not have a script [of Close Up]. I made notes in the evenings and we filmed during the day over 40 days.I didn't sleep a wink for those 40 nights. I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.

Abbas Kiarostami

#12. Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Amelia Earhart

#13. I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, and therefore abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation.

Philip Larkin