Simile Quotes - Page 4

• Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). "Cartas escogidas, 1917-1961".

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• Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Children, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.352, Random House

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• Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wind, Desire, Ships

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Jobs, Two, Mind

  Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

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• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

  George Orwell

  Speech, Use, Metaphor

  George Orwell (1968). "The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: Ante tus narices, 1945-1950".

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• En cuanto el café está en el estómago, se produce una conmoción general. Las ideas empiezan a moverse... surgen símiles, el papel se cubre. El café es tu aliado y escribir deja de ser una lucha.

  Honore de Balzac

  Café, Lucha, Mudanza

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• Hablamos ahora o lo hago yo y lo hacen otros. Nunca has hablado antes. Lo harás. Podrás decir cómo la ciudad es un pozo y una colina y un estandarte y un animal que caza y una nave en el mar y el mar y cómo somos peces en él, no como el hombre que nada semanalmente con peces sino los peces con los que nada, el agua, la piscina. Os amo, me ilumináis, me calentáis, sois soles. Nunca antes habías hablado.

  China Mieville

  Love You, Animal, Men

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• Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.

  Técnica inmortal

  Creativity, Soul, Facts

  Fuente: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
  Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

  Ogden Nash

  Would Be, Employment, Literature

  1945 Many LongYears Ago,'Very Like A Whale'.

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• Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Done, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.64, Xist Publishing

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• When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.

  Leigh Newman

  Kings, Book, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mistress, Chaste, Informants

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• No sé mucho sobre simbolismo. Me parece que hay un peligro potencial en el simbolismo. Me siento más cómodo con las metáforas y los símiles.

  Haruki Murakami

  Symbolism, Metaphor, Danger

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

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• The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."

  Pusha T

  Men, Play, People

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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• Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grinning, Morgues

  "La luz fantástica (Mundodisco, Libro 2)". Libro de Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

  George Washington

  Spring, Order, Useless

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.301

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• One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Average, Three

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• Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Disease, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.38, Random House

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• We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

  Marcel Proust

  Tone, Introducing, Habit

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• Utilizo muchos símiles y metáforas cuando trabajo, simplemente porque es mi mejor manera de describir un edificio o una escena. Se me da fatal describir paisajes: árboles, edificios. Las cosas inanimadas no me interesan: Siempre pienso: "Oh, no, aquí viene otro edificio que tengo que describir". Así que suelo utilizar un símil o una metáfora.

  Robert Cormier

  Pensar, Árbol, Utilizar

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

  Chapman Cohen

  Running, Illustration, Two

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• Tomando prestado un símil del campo de fútbol, creemos que los hombres deben jugar limpio, pero que no debe haber evasivas, y que el éxito sólo puede llegar al jugador que golpea fuerte la línea.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Football, Believe, Men

  Speech, Oyster Bay, N.Y., Oct. 1897

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• I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Cutting, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• No sirve de nada decirnos que algo era "misterioso" o "repugnante" o "sobrecogedor" o "voluptuoso". Mediante la descripción directa, la metáfora y el símil, la evocación secreta de poderosas asociaciones, el ofrecimiento de los estímulos adecuados a nuestros nervios (en el grado y el orden adecuados), y mediante el ritmo y la melodía vocálica, la longitud y la brevedad de tus frases, debes conseguir que nosotros, los lectores, no tú, exclamemos "¡qué misterioso!" o "repugnante" o lo que sea. Déjame probar por mí mismo, y no tendrás necesidad de decirme cómo debo reaccionar.

  C. S. Lewis

  Potente, Oferta, Orden

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• Este café cae en el estómago y de inmediato se produce una conmoción general. Las ideas empiezan a moverse como los batallones del Gran Ejército del campo de batalla, y la batalla tiene lugar. Las cosas recordadas llegan a todo galope, siguiendo al viento. La caballería ligera de las comparaciones lanza una magnífica carga de despliegue, la artillería de la lógica se apresura con su tren y su munición, las astas de con arrancan como tiradores. Surgen los símiles, el papel se cubre de tinta; pues la lucha comienza y concluye con torrentes de agua negra, igual que una batalla con pólvora.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Moving, Fall

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