Quotes about likeness
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Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Life, Fear, Hope

“The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Be More Cynical (2000)

Game, Madness

“He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.”

Philip K. Dick book Ubik

Source: Ubik

Reality

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

“Oh, I see,” Poseidon said. “A shame. I quite like blow-fish. I am Poseidon.”
“Poseidon? That’s an interesting name.”
“Yes, I like it. I’ve gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon.”
“Like the god of the sea.”
“Very much like that, yes.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

God, Fish, Sea

“I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Feeling

“Why would you come to Italy to see Spanish steps? That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Food

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love, Heart

“Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

Guy

“She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Home, Waiting

“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 4 : Life and Death and All That p.43

Suffering, Depressing

“Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Help, Dance

“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

World, Hope, Future, Despair

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

God, People, Boy

“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Sun

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women

Love

“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Thinking

“I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking, Sleep

“Max?” said the Gasman. “Are those, um, rats?”
Lovely. “Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids,” I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Love, Girl, Appearance

“Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Hell

“So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Girl

“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Personality

“Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Help

“Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

People, Housing

“I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

People, Silence, Water, Loneliness

“If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

“What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

People

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Life

“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

Money, Knowledge

“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Beauty, Kiss

“He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”

Timothy Findley book The Wars

Source: The Wars

Love, Way

“It’s like disco inferno up in here”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Black Dawn

“Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.”

Beryl Markham book West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

Learning, Future

“Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Life, Religion

“Life is like a box of cookies.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Life, Box

“Don't worry chief,"said foaly,"It's like riding a unicorn, you never forget.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Variant: It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
Source: Artemis Fowl

Forgetting

“Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Love, Pain

“I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

“Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He's very pretty, and vampires like that. I can't say I mind either.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Angels, Hell, Night

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Variant: I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
Source: We Were Liars

Fools, Suffering

“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!”

Robin Cook (1931–1994) English crime writer

Source: Crisis

“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

World, Sense

“What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Love, Life

“I’m not afraid of the darkness outside.
It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.”

Shelagh Delaney (1938–2011) English playwright

Housing

“That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Dogs

“Beckendorf walked up with his helmet under his arm. 'She likes you, man.'
'Sure,' I muttered. 'She likes me for target practice.'
'Nah, they always do that. A girl starts trying to kill you, you know she's into you.
'Makes a lot of sense.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Girl, Sense

“I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Feeling

“Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Light, Heart, Fight

“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”

Jessica Simpson (1980) American singer-songwriter and actress

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Change, Time, Waiting

“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Guy, Boy, Forgiveness

“History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Evil We Love

Life, Way, History, Teachers

“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 311.

Happiness, Way, Feeling, Tea

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Life, Time

“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

“Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

People

“I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Life

“People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”

China Miéville book Railsea

Source: Railsea

People, Star, Light

“Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Life

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Light

“What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Invisibility

People, Memory, Time

“And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous."

"Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood."
"It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright

Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little

Love, Heart

“And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment"

Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said”

Jessica Bird book Covet

Source: Covet

“Just because you're a gutless harlot doesn't mean I won't find your… attributes attractive. I might be immortal, but I'm still a red-blooded male."

"Harlot? Who talks like that? Father Time, meet the Flinstones.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

Time

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

Light

“But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.

Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Smile, Hurt

“Do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Parade interview http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_09-23-2007/AStephen_Colbert (23 September 2007) <br class="br">Variant: You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. <br class="br">Context: Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

Time

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Life, Knowledge

“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.”

Catherine Coulter (1942) American romance novelist

Source: Tail Spin

Guy, Night

“I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed.

"Why?"

"Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.”

Lisa Lutz (1970) US author

Source: Curse of the Spellmans

People

“I carried recipes in my head like maps.”

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“Write what you like; there is no other rule.”

O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer

“She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.”

Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist

Source: The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

People

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variant: Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

Books, Home, Reading

“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Way, Optimism, Sense

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules

Feeling