#mile

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ↗

— Mark Twain

#simile #insult

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nearly-headless-nick #simile #insult

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#simile #witty #insult

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#simile #insult

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. ↗

— Al Capone

#guns

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗

— Horace Mann

#house #simile #windows #books

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#smiles #tears #tears

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are. ↗

— Josh Groban

#distance #distant #loss #smile #loss

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest ↗

— Winston Churchill

#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech