Like Something Quotes - Page 3

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

Harlan Coben

Blessing, You Re Pretty, Asks

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It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Frank A. Clark

Inspirational, Good Luck, Looks

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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Raymond Chandler

Funny, Women, Class

"The High Window". Book by Raymond Chandler, 1942.

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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

Sarah Brightman

Cat, Auditions, Records

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After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Monica Bellucci

Love, Marriage, Wedding

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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Clive Bell

Beautiful, Art, Mean

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When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

Donald Miller

Fall, Men, Miracle

Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

Andrew Wyeth

Struggle, Eye, Looks

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She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Simone de Beauvoir

Morning, Princess, Lovely

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It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

Chuck Klosterman

Hate, Moving, Writing

Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Jodi Picoult

Reality, Looks

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On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

John Owen

Eye, Desire, World

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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

Alice Walker

Thinking, Years, People

Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

Marguerite Duras

Book, Writing, Ideas

Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

Sloane Crosley

Girl, Children, Book

Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.115, Portobello Books

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And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

Stan Rice

Rain, Remember, Thunder

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I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

Robin McKinley

Yoga, Self, Class

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Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

Joss Whedon

Firefly, Psychics, Space

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I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

Lauren Slater

Zero, Lasts, Return

Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated

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No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Terry Pratchett

Moon, Men, Want

Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Hunter S. Thompson

Law, Might, Taste

Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing.

Philip Ball

Thinking, Stripes, Patterns

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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Believe, Flower, Done

Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Thomas Sowell

Government, Libertarian Party, Long

Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's not going to be like they're all going to leave. One of the reasons I'm holding this hearing in the morning is to hear from somebody who actually understands what's involved here - Janet Napolitano - and I hope that from what she says and what we hear from her, we can start building some consensus.

Patrick Leahy

Country, Morning, Reality

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