Quotes about likeness
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“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“I never said I didn't like kissing you. The problem is too many guys have like kissing you." - Erik Night to Zoey Redbird (Ch 26)”

P. C. Cast book Untamed

Source: Untamed

Guy, Kiss, Problem, Night

“It was quite impossible to describe.

Here is what it looked like.

It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

World, Home, Sad, Heartbreaking

“She eyes me like a pisces.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

Thinking

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

People

“Stella:
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..
[she smiles to herself]
Blanche:
I guess that is what is meant by being in love..”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

Love, Smile, Baby, Cry

“A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Star

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."

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Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

People, Box

“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

Olaf Stapledon book Odd John

Source: Odd John

Food, Dogs, Thinking

“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"

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Sting (1951) English musician

Source: Nothing Like the Sun

Coffee, Drink, Tea

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

God, People, Business, Thinking

“The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him.”

Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor

World

“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

Stupidity, Animals

“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Hall of Fame induction address, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf3PYecdgjE&NR=1

Fear, Powerful

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Light, Silence

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

Love, Wise, Deep, Happy

“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators… The land is one organism.”

Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist

"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s
Context: Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

Love, Hate, Game

“In his early twenties, a man started collecting paintings, many of which later became famous: Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Over the decades he amassed a wonderful collection. Eventually, the man’s beloved son was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam, where he died while trying to save his friend. About a month after the war ended, a young man knocked on the devastated father’s door. “Sir,” he said, “I know that you like great art, and I have brought you something not very great.” Inside the package, the father found a portrait of his son. With tears running down his cheeks, the father said, “I want to pay you for this.ℍ “No,” the young man replied, “he saved my life. You don’t owe me anything.ℍ The father cherished the painting and put it in the center of his collection. Whenever people came to visit, he made them look at it. When the man died, his art collection went up for sale. A large crowd of enthusiastic collectors gathered. First up for sale was the amateur portrait. A wave of displeasure rippled through the crowd. “Let’s forget about that painting!” one said. “We want to bid on the valuable ones,” said another. Despite many loud complaints, the auctioneer insisted on starting with the portrait. Finally, the deceased man’s gardener said, “I’ll bid ten dollars.ℍ Hearing no further bids, the auctioneer called out, “Sold for ten dollars!” Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But then the auctioneer said, “And that concludes the auction.” Furious gasps shook the room. The auctioneer explained, “Let me read the stipulation in the will: “Sell the portrait of my son first, and whoever buys it gets the entire art collection. Whoever takes my son gets everything.ℍ It’s the same way with God Almighty. Whoever takes his Son gets everything.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Life, God, War, People

“What are you?" I whispered.
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.”

David Almond book Skellig

Source: Skellig

Angels, Bird

“I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Love

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Way, Thinking

“Only someone who (like the Intuitionist) denies that the concepts and axioms of classical set theory have any meaning could be satisfied with such a solution, not someone who believes them to describe some well-determined reality. For in reality Cantor's conjecture must be either true or false, and its undecidability from the axioms as known today can only mean that these axioms do not contain a complete description of reality.”

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics

Reality, Falseness

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Spring, Heart

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

Parting

“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

People, Sense, Personality

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Chapter V Applied Idealism http://www.bartleby.com/55/5.html <br class="br">1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)

Dependency

“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Parting, Forgetting

“Begin by drawing and painting like the old masters. After that do as you see fit - you will always be respected.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 82

Drawing, Painting

“That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

People, Beauty, Way, Thinking

“But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children

“Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.

Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh.

I really hate it when girls do that. I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.”

P. C. Cast book Marked

Source: Marked

Hate, Girl, Waiting

“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”

Sharon Creech (1945) American writer of children's novels

Life

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586 <br class="br">Posthumous attributions <br class="br">Variant: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Thinking, Tree

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Soul, Thinking, Sense

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

Roald Dahl book The Witches

"The Heart of a Mouse"
Source: The Witches (1983)

Love

“Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP”

Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer

Leonard Nimoy's last tweet https://twitter.com/therealnimoy/status/569762773204217857 (February 23, 2015), quoted in Miriam Kramer, " Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy Dies at 83 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/star-trek-s-leonard-nimoy-dies-at-83/", Scientific American (February 27, 2015).

Life, Memory, Perfection

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Winter, Heart, Parting

“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Reading

“The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if
what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant
forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Dreams, Reality

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 13; Unsourced variant: Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Context: Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Water

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

Women, Sister

“‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Success, Motivational, Success, Business

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Life, Books, Beauty, Way

“To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Death, Nature, Reading

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Books, Reading

“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Angels, Hell

“Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.”

Barry Lyga (1971) American writer

Source: Boy Toy

Forgiveness, Time, Anger

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

God

“I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.”

Megan McDonald (1959) American children's literature author

Source: The Sisters Club

Love, Way

“A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Dogs

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Bee, Fight

“Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Duino Elegies

Source: Duino Elegies

Secret, Hope, Tree, Housing

“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Hell

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”

Terry Pratchett book The Fifth Elephant

Source: The Fifth Elephant

Happiness, World, Peace, Hope

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Death, Hope, Heart, Hope

“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art forms that rival painting and sculpture in their impact.
(From the forward to "Crafts in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Art, Time, Painting

“No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy”

Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite

Confidence

“Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.”

Mike Myers (1963) Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer

Mathematics

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”

Raymond Chandler book The High Window

Source: The High Window

“There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Way

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.” That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead. Things will not always be like this. Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot outdream God. Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope.”

John Eldredge

Source: The Sacred Romance Drawing Closer To The Heart Of God

God, Lie, Hope, Imagination

“… a metaphor… is like lying but more decorative.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

Lying

“It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor

On his writing style
Interview in Writers at Work (1988)
Variant: Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Source: Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews

Cars, Way, Night, Cute

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

People, Dogs, Learning

“To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Life, World, Science