Interesting Quotes About Like

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Never

  

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

  

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life

  

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Me

  

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Time

  

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

  

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Think

  

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

  

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Yourself

  

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

  

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

  

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Never

  

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Me

  

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Think

  

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Family , Me

  

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Me , Think

  

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Me , Never

  

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

  

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

  

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Never , Yourself

  

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Life , Music

  

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Never

  

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

  

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

  

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Time

  

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

  

Life, he realize, 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.

Life

  

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

  

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

  

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Peace

  

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

  

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

  

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

  

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

  

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

  

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

  

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

Time

  

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

  

A house without books is like a room without windows.

  

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Never

  

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

  

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.

Never

  

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

  

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

  

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

  

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Life , Never

  

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

  

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

Never

  

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  

So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

Me

  

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

  

I like good strong words that mean something…

  

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

  

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

  

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Trying

  

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

  

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Never

  

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

  

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Together

  

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

  

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

Together

  

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

Life

  

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

  

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

  

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Life

  

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Me

  

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

Me

  

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

  

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Think

  

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

  

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

  

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

  

From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

Me

  

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

  

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Life

  

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Never

  

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Past

  

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

Me

  

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

  

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

Singing