Quotes about likeness
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“Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Distant Shores

“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”

Ken Follett book Fall of Giants

Source: Fall of Giants

Baby

“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”

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

People, Thinking

“Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Books

“Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a
contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.”

Hugh Nibley (1910–2005) Religious scholar

“It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Life, Thinking, Time, Training

“I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”

Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket

Sea

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Understanding, Sleep, Universe

“I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

Love, Thinking

“It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

“Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”

Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer

Books

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

“Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Boy

“Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest… was not so modest.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Life, Winter, Summer

“Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

Sex, Revenge

“You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle… you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

People, Beauty, Problem, Thinking

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening (1899)

World, Appearance

“Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.”

David Rakoff (1964–2012) writer

Source: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

Love, Hate, Books, Reading

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

People, Way

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles… they don't make it anymore.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Love

“So Aphrodite married Hephaestus and the celebrity ship Aphrophaestus completely dominated Olympian tabloid news for like a thousand years. Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Feeling, Hell

“It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Feeling, Change

“The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”

Seamus Heaney book Station Island

Source: Station Island

Dreams, Imagination, Light, Sun

“Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

The Sign (May 1938) This has been misquoted as: The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Truth, Hell

“I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.”

Obert Skye (1970) American writer

Source: Pillage

“Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Books, World, Time

“If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

Cats

“She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

“Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Hope, Thinking

“elliptical, adj.
The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Kiss

“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

L. Frank Baum book Ozma of Oz

Source: Ozma of Oz

Youth, Country

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”

James Joyce book The Dead

Source: The Dead

Life, Star, Memory

“Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Confidence

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Forgiveness, Thinking, Change

“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Death, Dreams, Color

“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Life, World, Evil

“Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experienced before take on new meaning. It’ll happen for the rest of your life.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Life, Change

“Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

People

“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped (2001)

Happiness, Strong

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Friendship, People, Tree

“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Dreams, Travel

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Books

“It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Heart, Cute, Romantic, Valentine's Day

“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

People, World

“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love, World, Waiting

“Excuse me, have you seen Death? Big guy with black feathery wings? Likes to reap souls?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Death, Guy, Soul

“I don't like people," said Velvet. "… I only like horses.”

Enid Bagnold book National Velvet

Source: National Velvet

People, Horse

“Why are you so sad, akri? (Simi)
I’m not sad, Simi. (Acheron)
Yes you are. I know you, akri, you gots that pain in your heart like the Simi gets whenever she cries. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Pain, Sadness, Heart

“we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 04

Color, Water

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

People, World

“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Friendship, Flowers, Water

“The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Lie, Feeling, Star, Night

“I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,

A: It's never gonna last, and
B: It hurts like hell when it's over?”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Hell, Hurt

“Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.”

George Harrison book I, Me, Mine

Source: I, Me, Mine

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

Hell

“The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

Truth, Secret, Universe

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Books, Reading, Night

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays

Marriage, Bird

“Are we, like, having a conversation?"
"Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“You don’t need to control emotion,” he said. “Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.”

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Fear, Nature, Problem, Weather

“Hart caressed the letters of baby Graham’s name. “Mac likes to say, We’re Mackenzies. We break what we touch. But this little Mackenzie… he broke me.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Duke's Perfect Wife

Baby

“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”

Milan Kundera book Immortality

Source: Immortality

Pain, Happiness, World, Universe

“As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

“Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You… you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Well of Ascension

Men, Strong, Time

“If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”

Sara Evans (1971) American country singer and songwriter

Source: Softly and Tenderly

Color, Failure, Thinking

“What was it like… to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

“So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Girl, Thinking

“He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking, because we both know-this is the night we become real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Way, Girl, Kiss, Night

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Death

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Truth

“Mark spoke like a poem and walked like a dance.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Bitter of Tongue

Dance

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Life, Past, Future

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Life, Smile

“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Stupidity, Thinking

“I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Love, Beauty, Relationship, Anniversary

“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

People, Faith

“It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.”

Gerald Durrell book My Family and Other Animals

Source: My Family and Other Animals

Selfishness

“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

An explanation of relativity which he gave to his secretary Helen Dukas to convey to non-scientists and reporters, as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, l56 (1957) by James B. Simpson; also in Expandable Quotable Einstein (2005) edited by Alice Calaprice William Hermanns recorded a series of four conversations he had with Einstein and published them in his book Einstein and the Poet (1983), quoting Einstein saying this variant in a 1948 conversation: "To simplify the concept of relativity, I always use the following example: if you sit with a girl on a garden bench and the moon is shining, then for you the hour will be a minute. However, if you sit on a hot stove, the minute will be an hour." ( p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false) In the 1985 book Einstein in America, Jamie Sayen wrote "Einstein devised the following explanation for her [Helen Dukas] to give when asked to explain relativity: An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour." ( p. 130 http://books.google.com/books?ei=yma3TsDWK8WciQL63smAAQ&ct=book-thumbnail&id=vs3aAAAAMAAJ&dq=sayen+%22einstein+in+america%22&q=pretty+girl#search_anchor) Attributed in posthumous publications Variant: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Girl, Funny

“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Way, Learning, Clothes

“You’re attacking that one like a wolverine.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Context: These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

Soul, Sleep

“Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says.
"No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of that creepy guy who lives at your house."
"You mean my dad?" he laughs.”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

Source: Deadly Little Lies

People, Way, Guy, Housing

“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Light

“She glared at him. “I'm not weird like that. I'm good weird. I'm cool weird.”
“Yes,” he said doubtfully. “Yes, you are.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Playing with Fire

“It's probably best for me to work off some energy before I get you naked. I'm sure you'd like to be able to walk tomorrow.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Children, Way

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Sunflower

Feeling, Animals

“Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

As quoted in New York Times article "The Einstein Theory of Living; At 65 he leads the simplest of lives — and grapples with the most complex thoughts." http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FA3A58157A93C0A81788D85F408485F9 (12 March 1944) Variants: Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? As quoted in The Dark Side of Shakespeare : An Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero, p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=-5SxGKrTRUEC&pg=PA126 (2003) by W. Ron Hess Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me. As quoted in "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC (18 March 2005) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/ 1940s

Understanding

“Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great-… Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother."
"Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you."
-Liesel”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Drink, Reading