You Like It Quotes - Page 8

• Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.

  David Weinberger

  Organization, Marketing, Becoming

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• You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'

  Dawn French

  Daughter, Mistake, Kids

  "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• A couple of days back, I got into a car accident. Not my fault. Even if it's not your fault, the other person gets out of their car and looks at you like it's your fault: Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doing 80!

  Dane Cook

  Couple, Light, Car

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• The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

  Emma Thompson

  Love, Life, Sex

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• Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Teaching, Working It

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Wine, Men

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• I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

  Syd Barrett

  Giving, Looks, Bells

  "Song: Bike (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)". August 5, 1967.

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• When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

  L. J. Smith

  Soulmate, Destiny, Thinking

  L.J. Smith (2008). “Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm half-Mexican - get used to it 'cause in about five to 10 years, you're all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you're gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you're gonna walk in and say, 'Hey! What's happening? Since when did we start serving flan?' Well, what's happening is that somebody's boning a Latino.

  Al Madrigal

  Years, Mexican, Hey

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• You can do anything you like, it's all fiction.

  John Gossage

  Fiction, Can Do

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• The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Idyllic, Forests, Grew Up

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• It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

  Joan Didion

  Ifs And, Pleasure, Written

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• If you walk by something that I've done and you like it then I don't think I did what I was supposed to do. It should hit, it should either make you feel uncomfortable, or it should make you feel great, as long as it makes you feel something.

  Jason Shawn Alexander

  Thinking, Long, Done

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

  John Cusack

  Party, Reflection, Simple

  "The Raven - John Cusack interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Media, Fans

  "MIPTV: Eli Roth on His Netflix TV Debut 'Hemlock Grove' (Q&A)". Interview with Rhonda Richford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.

  Philip Pullman

  Character, Thinking, Example

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I would just say try it and see if you like it. See how it makes you feel and remember that it's not about being perfect, it's about just doing your best. I think it would have tremendous benefits for everyone.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Thinking, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• O, Begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises... Whether you like it or no, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days... Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer.

  John Wesley

  Monday, Morning, Mean

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• The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with' only to discover that they are still there.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Mind, Consciousness

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Rest Of Your Life, Habit

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• I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

  Jesse McCartney

  Growing Up, Thinking, Important

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• A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

  Henny Youngman

  Alaska, Years, Rosary

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• If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Writing, Fiction

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• Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Change, Interesting, Sometimes

  "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

  Meister Eckhart

  Nature, Track, Trying

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