Similie Quotes & Sayings

Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs. — Cormac McCarthy

It was like watching a boar try to take on the endless blue of the sky. — C.S. Pacat

Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom. — Kamil Ali

Procrastinate now, don't put it off. — Ellen DeGeneres

& she, armed with both & abandoning the joys of reason that had meant so much to her as well as me, made a suitably advantageous marriage with an ironmonger with a face like an anvil & a soul like a slag, & so I never saw her freckles fade, her auburn hair dull, never had to watch our love turn to that non-colour, white.
-pg 115 — Richard Flanagan

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous. — Vincent Schiavelli

When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave. — Cormac McCarthy

A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound. — Cormac McCarthy

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move. — Ari Fleischer

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. — Thomas A Kempis

I would've given up without her - not on you, never on you, but on myself. I suppose I can tell you this now, but I wasn't a very good student. I wasn't smart enough to just get by. I wasn't focused enough in class. I rarely passed exams. I skipped assignments. I was constantly on academic probation. Not that your grandmother would ever know, but at the time, I was thinking of doing what you were later accused of doing: selling all my belongings, sticking out my thumb, and hitchhiking to California to be with the other hippies who had dropped out and tuned in.

Everything changed when I met your mother. She made me want things that I had never dreamed of wanting: a steady job, a reliable car, a mortgage, a family. You figured out a long time ago that you got your wanderlust from me. I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: That restless feeling dissolves like butter. — Karin Slaughter

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan) — David Levithan

Wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too. — Mohlalefi J Motsima

There are always exceptions,' replied Flea. 'They are what make you exceptional. — Mo Willems

Harrogate saw them going along Blount Avenue Sunday morning. They wore outfits all cut from the same bolt of cloth and in the church pew standing six across they looked like a strip of gaudy wallpaper cut into those linked dolls madfolk pass their time in fashioning. — Cormac McCarthy

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother. — Jenny Mollen

What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem? — Francesca Lia Block

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here. — Toby Emmerich

With the sun sliding out of the sky like spit off a wall ... — Junot Diaz

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away. — Brad Warner