#simile

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges. ↗

— Roman Payne

#hairstyle #simile #roman

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#nipple #simile #truth #funny

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #simile #life

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. ↗

— Emma Smith

#life #rapid #river #simile #sweep

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#beauty #similes #beauty

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. ↗

— Dan Brown

#simile #music

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#humor #simile #humor

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#simile #work

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