Quotes about likeness
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“The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

Imagination

“Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Time, Christ

“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Way, Light, Time

“You're beautiful in battle…. Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."

"Funny. That is kind of why I'm here."

"Angels fall, Rose.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Justice, Beauty, Angels

“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Reading

“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Secret, Mountain

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Winter

“Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) French writer

Dogs

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Men, Thinking

“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?"
"With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Children, Education, Family, Home

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

Books, Waiting

“If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.”

Sarah Kane book Crave

Source: Crave

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

“India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. … India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”

Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author

The Hindu, "The Shashi Tharoor column: A departure, fictionally", Sunday, September 16, 2001 Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/16/stories/13160675.htm <br class="br">2000s

“Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Pleasure

“Horror was rooted in sympathy… in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Heart-Shaped Box

Understanding, Suffering

“On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

Source: The Whitsun Weddings

Love

“An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.”

Heinrich Böll book The Clown

Source: The Clown

Love

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Pain, Personality

“Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”

Jack Ketchum (1946–2018) American horror writer

Coffee

“He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

Feeling, Flying

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Fate

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

Loss, Time

“nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love

“Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

Waiting

“Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Dogs, Guy, Sense, Change

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Writings
Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

Love

“Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words…”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

Soul

“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Flowers

“They wanted them to look like the Gods.
God doesn't look like this.”

James Rollins (1961) American writer

Source: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

God

“Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.”

Brian Jacques Redwall

Source: Redwall

Business

“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 35, Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

People

“Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Animals, Personality

“They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that.
But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Way

“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”

Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

Truth, Lie

“Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because theare funny but because your ownis funny.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

Support, Laughter

“You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Thinking

“I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Life, Failure

“I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer

Food, Time, Reading, Cooking

“His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Life, Change

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Lie

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Children, World, Imagination

“I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer.

"Pony?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“It’s hard not
to jump out
instead of
waiting to be
found. It’s
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It’s
like some form
of skin’s developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.

"Hide and Seek”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Source: The Niagara River

Tear, Waiting

“I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage

Love, Spring, Forgiveness

“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

History, Time

“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

God

“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Interview on CBS TV (20 February 1977).

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”

Michael Crichton book The Andromeda Strain

Source: The Andromeda Strain

Parting

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Shoe

“The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Animals

“I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“It looks like a bothering sort of day.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Night

“Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.”

David Almond book My Name Is Mina

Source: My Name Is Mina

“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: Selected Poems

“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.”

Scott Dikkers (1965) American comic writer

Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

Thinking, Help

“To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Source: At Home: Essays 1982-1988

“And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cats tail- you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if youpart banshee. She didn't laugh."
-Magnus to Clary, pg.228-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Cats

“Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!” Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Children, Smile

“Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.”

Garth Nix book Mister Monday

Source: Mister Monday

Death

“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Life, Secret, Books, Beauty

“Do you always throw your money away like this?"

"Only when I'm in love”

Sidney Sheldon book Nothing Lasts Forever

Source: Nothing Lasts Forever

Love, Money

“Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Soul, Heartbreaking

“Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Soul, Thinking, Animals

“She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.”

Jack Kerouac book Maggie Cassidy

Source: Maggie Cassidy

Soul

“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

“My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.”

W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) American poet

Source: The Lice

Boy

“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

People, Books, Reading, Housing

“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

“I do like the world quite a lot.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

World

“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea and you always double knot your shoelaces.' I fight back. Then I dive back into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Source: Mockingjay

Stupidity, Sleep, Fight, Tea