Quotes about likeness
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“Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

Feeling, Princess, Selfishness

“Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?"
"Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti."
-Clary & Jace, pg.310-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Context: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Hate

“Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Learning

“Knock her dead, my man."
"Oh no." Xcor shook his head."That shan't be necessary. This one I like.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

Dead

“In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

As quoted in Careertracking: 26 success Shortcuts to the Top (1988) by James Calano and Jeff Salzman; though used in an address by Bill Clinton (31 March 1997), and sometimes cited to Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) no earlier occurence of this has yet been located.
Disputed

Motivational, Leadership, Back To Work

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Secret

“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Failure, Hell

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Fear, Time, Reading

“The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Love is such a magic thing. It can make you feel like your floating in the clouds without a trouble in the world.”

Lois Gladys Leppard (1924–2008) American writer

Source: Mandie and the Courtroom Battle

Love, World, Feeling

“Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

God, Dependency

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Dreams, Sleep

“I like seals.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.”

Karen Blixen book Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

Star, Tear, Grass, Singing

“Isabelle!” Simon called. “Stop throwing clothes at me! Just because you’re a Shadowhunter and I’m a vampire doesn’t mean we can never happen. Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love, Clothes

“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Hate, Soul, Imagination, Thinking

“It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.

Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

World, Feeling

“Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.”

Douglas Coupland book JPod

Source: JPod

“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

People, Parting

“Never say love is "like" anything… It isn't.”

Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh

Love

“Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping."

Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own."

Yeah."

Good. It's more familiar.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Help

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

Thinking

“A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Fools, Thinking, Fight

“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Reading

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Life, Reality, Waiting

“… why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.”

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

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

Time

“It's like hunting cows”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Thinking, Christ

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Feeling

“When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

Love, Books, Beauty, Reading

“Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Feeling, Thinking, Time

“My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.”

Elise Broach (1963) American writer

Source: Shakespeare's Secret

Feeling, Home, Moms

“I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.”

Ned Vizzini (1981–2013) American writer

Problem

“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Love, Thinking

“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

Life, Change

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Princess

“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”

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

Feeling, Reality, Selfishness

“I can tell we’re going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang)
Just remember one thing, world. I’m the best friend you’ll ever have or the last enemy you’ll ever make. (Thorn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

World

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Imagination, Boy

“What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

God, Soul, Heartbreaking

“I like all the things that make you monstrous.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Waiting, Animals

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Heart

“As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 78 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

Men, Coffee

“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Life, God, Marriage, Nature

“Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek)
Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Birth

“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist

Peace, Loss, Personality

“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”

Edna Ferber (1885–1968) Novelist, playwright

Source: Gigolo

“I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

Age, Thinking

“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter bunny, um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…"

"Everythings going to be alright.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy

God, School, Parent, Hurt

“I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Betrayals

World

“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Ali's Pretty Little Lies

Family, Summer, Perfection

“Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?”
“I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Time

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

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

Change

“Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs.”
“I know how to make a snow angel.”
“Then do it! Otherwise, you’re more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Angels

“Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Home, Clothes

“Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Adrian's Lost Chapter

Study, Wolf, Personality

“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Dreams, Sleep

“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Life, Girl, Princess

“The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Time

“It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know”

Georges Perec book A Man Asleep

Source: Un homme qui dort

“Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

Waiting, Summer

“You only like guys you don't have a chance with, because you're scared.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Guy, Chance

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Feeling, Change, Help

“The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster

People, Thinking

“Is he… is Dimitri a Strigoi?"
Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded.
My heart shattered. My world shattered.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

World, Heart

“Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Waiting

“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Way, Change, Forgetting

“Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Feeling, Perfection

“Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”

Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

People

“Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

Gregory Maguire book A Lion Among Men

Source: A Lion Among Men

Family, Beauty

“Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.”

Stephen King book The Talisman

Source: The Talisman

“You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe.
“If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Just Like Heaven

People

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, Feeling, Freedom, Water

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

Memory

“If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

“The knocking persisted. It wasn't Derek. His knock would be careful, almost apologetic. This bastard knocked like he was doing me a favor.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“Do I look like a mess?” she asked.
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Life, Happiness, Stupidity

“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Waiting, Parting

“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life

“Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.”

Thrity Umrigar book The Space Between Us

Source: The Space Between Us

Water

“In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”

James Joyce book The Dead

Source: The Dead

“Life, he realized, was much like a song.
In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Steve Miller, Chapter 36, Steve, p. 376
Source: 2000s, The Last Song (2009)

Life

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B. O. There's no hiding it if it's there.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."

Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Hell

“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think" (2011)
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Context: An experiment about your next vacation will allow you to observe your attitude to your experiencing self: At the end of the vacation, all pictures and videos will be destroyed. Furthermore, you will swallow a potion that will wipe out all your memories of the vacation. How would this affect your vacation plans? How much would you be willing to pay for it, relative to a normally memorable vacation? My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.Imagine a painful operation during which you will scream in pain and beg the surgeon to stop. However, you are promised an amnesia-inducing drug that will wipe out any memory of the episode. Here again, my observation is that most people are remarkably indifferent to the pains of their experiencing self. Some say they don’t care at all. Others share my feeling, which is that I feel pity for my suffering self but not more than I would feel for a stranger in pain.I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.