“If you use fancy-pants words first thing in the morning, you’re going to end up a very lonely man.”Tagged: fancy pants, Morning, Lonely Man
“Is this about the children? I apologize for the noise. I told them to cry using their inside voices.”Tagged: Children, Apologize, noises, cry, inside voices
“Please, come in, and mind you wipe your feet on the mat so you don’t track in any mud. And don’t forget your enormous fortune!”Tagged: Welcome, wipe your feet, mud, enormous fortune
“The stove is a bit like a servant. You have to whack it sometimes to get it to work.”Tagged: stove, Servant, whack, Work, Metaphor Examples
“Terrible ending. The villagers should have been eaten like in Citizen Kane.”Tagged: Terrible ending, villagers, Citizen Kane
“Your cruelty is as sweet as this coffee I’m dumping the sugar into.”Tagged: Cruelty, sweet, Coffee, Sugar
“Poor little orphan. Haven’t you learned anything this year? Week? Season?”Tagged: poor, little, Orphan, Learning, week
“Girls were falling all over me in school, and not just because I would extend my leg when they walked by. I was a lone wolf, a mysterious stranger, a member of the drama club.”Tagged: Girls, School, Leg, walked by, lone wolf
“Genius ideas are simple, like the wheel or neurosurgery.”Tagged: genous, Simple, wheel, Simile Examples, neurosurgery
“My body is a temple, young man. I would never sully my skin the way so many young people do nowadays with their hedonistic lifestyle of loud music and abstinence.”Tagged: Body, Metaphor Examples, Temple, skin, loud music
“My whole life is just going around and around in circles. Like one of those things a hamster plays on before you put it in the oven.”Tagged: Life, around in circles, hamster, oven
“This school has a new kind of spirit energy. A sense of unity and joy which you usually cannot find unless you are at a birthday party or a public hanging.”Tagged: School, spirit energy, Unity, Joy, Metaphor Examples
“Does this seem like a nightmare? A bad dream? Because that’s the effect I was going for.”Tagged: Nightmare, Bad Dream, effect, going for
“I thought having prisoners would be fun, but it’s like having a pet or an in-law. You can lock them up, then you have to feed them.”Tagged: Prisoners, Fun, in-law, pet, Feed
“You see, a scheme is like a fire. Everything must be in order for it to work. You need matches, torches, an angry mob that won’t listen to reason, and the right sort of kindling. Orphans, for instance, tied to the wooden stake.”Tagged: Simile Examples, Scheme, matches, Fire, torches
“Ah, cocktail hour. When the sky is gold with the promise of fortunes and sparkling with the light of a thousand stolen sapphires.”Tagged: cocktail hour, sky gold, Fortune, sparkling, Light
“Parts of the plan were unplanned. That’s the plan. I mean, you don’t want to overplan a plan.”Tagged: Unplanned, plan, overplan