Quotes about likeness
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“Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like… a feeling.”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Source: The Wedding Girl

Feeling, Personality

“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

People, Books, Feeling, Joy

“Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

People, Parent

“Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Love, Age, Wine

“Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: she said with a smile. "I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to
know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very
slowly.
Source: Seize the Night

“[…] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Wine, Winter

“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.”

Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons

Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 281
Context: Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.

Life, Change

“Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

People, Courage, Thinking, Sense

“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

God, Beauty, Way

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot… I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”

Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer

Money, Home, Success, Help

“Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Time

“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Perfection

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

Girl, Fashion, Patience, Night

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

Thinking

“if you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Women, Food, Hope, Thinking

“It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Feeling

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Personality

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World

“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Time, Personality

“Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

World

“Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”

J. Maarten Troost (1969) American writer

Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Travel, Flying

“You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

Sun, Heart

“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”

Anne McCaffrey book Nerilka's Story

Source: Nerilka's Story

Dreams, Sun, Cry

“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Love, Men, Pain, Beauty

“God loves you just the way you are, but Heto leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Love, God, Way

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

People, Secret, Sadness

“Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they likeof music.”

Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

People, Music

“Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.”

Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer

Source: Disney in Shadow

Dogs

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Love, Disappointment, Reality

“I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.”

Lee Child book The Affair

Source: The Affair

Life

“As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Way

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

People, World, Law

“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Feeling, Loss

“Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.”

Anya Seton book Dragonwyck

Source: Dragonwyck

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”

Machado de Assis (1839–1908) Brazilian writer

Music, Star, Waiting

“There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: A Dark Kiss of Rapture

World, Feeling, Personality

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Books, Soul

“The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.”

Manolo Blahnik (1942) Spanish fashion designer

“You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Love, Truth

“I beg your pardon?" Robson says.

One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.”

Neal Stephenson book Cryptonomicon

Source: Cryptonomicon

Hell

“I gave the dwarves an arrogant look, like, Yeah, that’s right. I’ve got a talking disco sword and you don’t.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

“Monica's eyes were fierce and fiery, but she didn't move, and after a second she turned and ran up the steps to the second floor, where her formally dressed friends were huddled like the cast of”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Children

“Familiarity breeds liking.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”

Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment

Source: The Days of Abandonment

Night

“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.”

Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose

Source: Angle of Repose

People

“Pansy," Murphy sneered.

Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“I felt like poisoning a monk.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Men, Money, Dogs, Music

“Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Appearance, Clothes

“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”

Robert B. Cialdini (1945) American social psychologist

Source: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

People, Behavior, Success

“If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.”

Joyce Carol Oates book First Love: A Gothic Tale

Source: First Love: A Gothic Tale

“Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Hope, Time, Baby

“The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“Never run from one such as me, female. You will no’ get away - and we like it.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

“Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.”

Robert B. Parker Mortal Stakes

Source: Mortal Stakes

Money, Time, Reading, Personality

“Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Way, Quotes

“Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin'
Context: Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown.
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Time