#simi

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dance

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

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#simile #wind

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#journey

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#optimism #pessimism #thomas-raith #victory

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. ↗

— Chris Baty

#rough-drafts #simile #writing #stress

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#care #choice #empty #full #glass

تشاؤمُ العقل .. تفاؤلُ الإرادة ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#pessimism #politics #will #pessimism

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#faith

See the moon? It hates us. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#philosophy #pessimism