Quotes about likeness
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“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Girl, Coffee, Thinking

“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Heart

“Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.”

Janet Evanovich book Hot Six

Source: Hot Six

Hurt, Dead

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

Universe

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”

Marilynne Robinson book Lila

Source: Lila

Learning

“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

Time

“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Music, Imagination, Idea

“and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Beauty, Light, Sun

“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

Sex, Drink

“When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

World, Kiss, Time, Heart

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Music, Feeling, Dance

“Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Time

“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too.. but I've never had that kind of courage.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Courage, Time

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Love, People

“Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

Money, Cars, Learning

“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

People

“Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Hurt

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Love, Girl, Thinking

“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Personality

“I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Heart

“Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Death

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying

Light, Sun

“I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Personality

“Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Support, Help

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Drowning Instinct

“It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.”

- Chinese proverb”

Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer

Learning

“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

People, Perseverance

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

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

Pain, Behavior, Joy

“And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Soul, Problem

“Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

“Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Life, God, Question, Anger

“I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Prince

Source: Dark Prince

Feeling

“They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Thinking

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Feeling, Strong

“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) Italian writer and journalist

Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.

Understanding, Problem, Perfection

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Thinking, Light, Heart, Painting

“I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers

Source: Flappers and Philosophers

Hate, Girl, Personality

“If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Books, Thinking, Housing

“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.”

China Miéville (1972) English writer

Reading

“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Drink

“His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Wedding

“… he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.”

Thomas Wolfe book Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

Distant

“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”

Jane Smiley (1949) American novelist

Education, Past

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

For Father

“It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Girl, Boy

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

Beauty

“Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say.

"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

People

“Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Water

“Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul”

Chaim Potok (1929–2002) American rabbi

People, Soul

“… occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

“She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I love him, but I am not sure I like him.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Love

“I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him." She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun. "He's like combustible!”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Source: The Magnificent Defeat

Way, Home, Courage, Heart

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

Ben Hecht (1894–1964) American screenwriter

Books

World, Time, Reading

“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

“Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.'

And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Playing with Fire

Fight

“Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

Strong

“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree
From which a small wood-owl calls.”

Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965) German author

Tree, Winter, Animals

“Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.”

Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold

Source: Blood of the Fold

People, Thinking

“Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.”

Kit Pearson Awake and Dreaming

Source: Awake and Dreaming

Books

“Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”

Charles Stross The Laundry Files

The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
The Laundry Files
Source: Overtime

Error, Madness

“He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Passion

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Truth, Feeling, Courage

“Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Feeling, Exercises, Thinking

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Distant, Memory, Sun, Heart

“You want me here. (Artemis)
Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Sense, Heart, Personality

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

Carl Reiner (1922) American actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian

People, Water

“Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.”

Christopher Moore book Fool

Source: Fool

Love

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Life

“Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Hate, Beauty, Girl

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

Books

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Happiness, Success, For women, Success

“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”

Iris Murdoch book The Red and the Green

The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30.

Thinking

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Sleep, Night

“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

Baby, Country

“It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Way

“She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand.
You know what that feels like?
Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

Feeling, Time

“Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Life

“When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image.”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Christ

“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

History, Parting

“And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?”

“John Cusack,” I corrected. “He looks like John Cusack.”

“Whatever.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

“He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Peace, Solitude

“I mean it," I said. "You're in danger."

"Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

Girl, Boy

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Love, Life, Feeling

Quotes about likeness page 88

Quotes about likeness
page 88