Quotes about likeness page 71
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: God-Shaped Hole
“You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.”
David Benioff book City of Thieves
Source: City of Thieves
“You stand out like a fart in a church.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Final Warning
“I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
Iain Banks book Use of Weapons
Source: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter II (p. 417).
Context: He shrugged. “Whatever.”
“Aw, Darac, come on; argue, dammit.”
“I don’t believe in argument,” he said, looking out into the darkness (and saw a towering ship, a capital ship, ringed with its layers and levels of armament and armor, dark against the dusk light, but not dead).
“You don’t?” Erens said, genuinely surprised. “Shit, and I thought I was the cynical one.”
“It’s not cynicism,” he said flatly. “I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
“Oh well, thank you.”
“It’s comforting, I suppose.” He watched the stars wheel, like absurdly slow shells seen at night: rising, peaking, falling...(And reminded himself that the stars too would explode, perhaps, one day.) “Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed,” he said. “And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.”
“Excuses, eh? Well, if this ain’t cynicism, what is?” Erens snorted.
“Yes, excuses,” he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. “I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you’re supposed to argue about, come later. They’re the least important part of the belief. That’s why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place.” He looked at Erens. “You’ve attacked the wrong thing.”
“It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
Source: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Raymond E. Feist (1945) Novelist
Variant: Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
Source: Magician: Apprentice
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Jace to Clary, pg. 482
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“The snozberries taste like snozberries!”
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 49
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Perfect Scoundrels
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams
“Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses… unless you prefer to die.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”
Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
“Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
“Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.”
Frank McCourt (1930–2009) Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
“Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer
Source: The Game of Kings
“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Gray Wolf Throne
“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
“I don’t know why I ever helped you.”
“Because you like broken things.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Variant: I don't know why I ever helped you."
"You like broken things.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“With all respects to heaven, I like it here.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Source: , said the shotgun to the head.
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War Began
Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began
“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace and Alec, pg. 73-74
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
