#simi

I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside. ↗

— Vanora Bennett

#simile

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#simile

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#simile #simile

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream? ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#philosophy #dreams

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ↗

— Mark Twain

#sadder #sight #than #young

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #knows #little #man #much

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. ↗

— John Barton

#combining #dissimilar #drawing #i #ideas

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#america #down #especially #generally #i

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world. ↗

— Kit Bond

#closest #count #freedoms #friend #happen