Quotes about likeness

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“Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.”

“Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.”

“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”

“Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?"
"Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.”

“I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.”

“Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.”

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

“But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”

“I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff.”

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

“The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.”

“Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.”

“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.”

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

“… That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'"
I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime."
He just looked at me.
"I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.”

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”

“You may think that what you’d like to recapture from your youth is your looks, your physical fitness, your simple pleasures, but what you really need is the fluidity of mind you once possessed.”

“Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.”

“If you don't like vampire games, don't play”

“You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned.”

“Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex… a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.”

“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”

“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

“Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.”

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

“I like pancakes.”

“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.”

“I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.”

“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”

“Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?”

“And very amusing it is to watch,” said Jem. “Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?”
“I do not,” she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams”

“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.”

“How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”

“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”

“You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.”

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

“Blay’s head whipped around to his mate. “Really? You asked my dad?” Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. “It’s my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.”

“I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire”

“I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second… or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.”

“I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.
That was a tough exit line to top.”

“I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us.
'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.”

“Life cracked like ice!”

“That ones yours, huh?"he asked, pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'? Doesnt he have a last name?"
"Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said, heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna.”

“When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again…”

“The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.”

“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.”

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”

“I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

“Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.”

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.”

“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”

“Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.”

“What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.”

“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”

“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”

“Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!”

“He certainly seems like the perfect guy but none of that matters if he's not the perfect guy for you.”

“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”

“Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My… Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep”

“Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.”

“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”

“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

“For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.”

“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.”

“I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.”

“But once in a while… I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.”

“When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.”

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”

“i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.”

“I grew on you, though," Jace stated confidently. "Eventually," Alec agreed. "Like moss, or a skin disease.”

“It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.”

“Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.”

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."
-white oleander”

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”

“You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)”

“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”

“Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.”

“It's like time travel only, you know, slower…”

“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.”