Like Me Quotes - Page 15

• I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Kids, Men, House

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Hair, Color

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• Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

  Dorothy Parker

  Love You, Kick Ass, Hell

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Struggle, Evil, Half

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works”

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• Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself
  in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be
  fair.

  Homer

  Looks, Asking, Position

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• These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

  Rand Paul

  Office, Leader, Campaigns

  "Rand Paul On Civil Rights Controversy: I Shouldn’t Have Talked To Rachel Maddow" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

  V. S. Naipaul

  Real, War, Boys

  V.S. Naipaul (2011). “Collected Short Fiction”, p.65, Everyman's Library

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• I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

  David Levithan

  Hair, Smell, Use

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Royce looked back down at the stream below. "She doesn't even know me. What if she doesn't like me? Few people do." "She might not at first. Maribor knows I didn't. But you have a way of growing on a person." He smiled. "You know, like lichen or mold.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  People, What If, Firsts

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• Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me." "I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Son, Looks, Alex

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Point Blank”, p.31, Penguin

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Squares, Guy

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Jason, stop this,” she pleaded. “You don’t want to kiss me. You don’t even like me more than a little when you aren’t foxed” A harsh laugh escaped him. “I like you too damned much!” he whispered bitterly, then pulled her head down and captured her lips in a demaning, scalding kiss that took everything and give nothing in return.

  Judith McNaught

  I Like You, Kissing, Giving

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• But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

  Darren Shan

  Outsiders, Different, Freak

  Darren Shan (2014). “The Demonata 1-5 (Lord Loss; Demon Thief; Slawter; Bec; Blood Beast) (The Demonata)”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

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• And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

  E. Lockhart

  People, Warning, Enough

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.112, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I don't want to tell you how to be a prince, but shouldn't you have some bodyguards or something?" "Bodyguards? Who would want to harm a charming guy like me?

  Marissa Meyer

  Guy, Want, Charming

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• Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lonely, Land, Dying

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

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• Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me

  Richelle Mead

  Arms

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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• Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

  Tamora Pierce

  Hurt, Buzzards, Firsts

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Feelings, Frustrated, Littles

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.18, Melville House

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• Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Angel, Snakes

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2056, Ballantine Books

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• Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don’t want to end up like me.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Loyalty, Eye, Giving

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• Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clothes, People, Stuff

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.47, Random House

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• Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Play, Two, Soul

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• When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

  Frantz Fanon

  Color, Dislike Me, Circles

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• But you just said you loved me." "I do, Mer. That's the point. I can't make you like me. I can't stand the thought of you hungry or cold or scared. I can't make you a Six.

  Kiera Cass

  Six, Scared, Cold

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.26, HarperCollins

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