About Like Quotes

#1. Grave doubts as to whether I was in my place in the church, would keep rising and floating about, like rain-clouds within me.

George MacDonald

#2. Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers ...

Tim Ferriss

#3. Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write anything other than my stuff in Jersey and what we were talking about, like that little world, like if I can throw my Aunt Janice into it, I'm cool, but otherwise I'm screwed.

Diane Ruggiero

#4. Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

Stephen Baxter

#5. Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats.

Gregory Maguire

#6. What about the rest of your life?"
She shrugged. "What about it?"
"Aren't you worried about, like, forever?"
"Forever is composed of nows," she says.

John Green

#7. I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

Johanna Spyri

#8. I've seen your temper, Master Talent. You haven't been privy to mine." With lazy perusal, [Mary's] gaze took in his heightened color and narrowed eyes. "While you'll be shouting about like a tot who's lost his lolly, I'll be the lash you never saw coming.

Kristen Callihan

#9. Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

#10. Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#11. Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

Libba Bray

#12. He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.

Michel Faber

#13. Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Aldo Leopold

#14. I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh ... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

Norm MacDonald

#15. I don't obsess over things that other girls care about, like clothes, movie stars, hair, painting nails, knitting or whatever shit they're into. I just want to eat a bunch of hot wings, sleep, play ball, and maybe, someday, make out with Ty.

Miranda Kenneally

#16. Arms wrapped around me, I looked over the past boxed up and piled haphazardly about, like memories in a person's brain. It was only a matter of knowing where a thought was and dusting it off.

Kim Harrison

#17. Oh, you break my heart. Why does everything have to be so sad to you? Why do you have so many negative opinions about things you don't know about, like foreign countries and diseases and everything? Why can't you be more like Chief Wayne? He has zero opinions. He's just upbeat.

George Saunders

#18. Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Jennifer Crusie

#19. Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows,

John Green

#20. I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.

Arthur Golden

#21. You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

Russell Simmons

#22. Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.

Julia McNair Wright

#23. Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.

William Mountford

#24. Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!' By this time

Lewis Carroll

#25. I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Taylor Swift

#26. Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

#27. I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Anthony Jeselnik

#28. I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

Jonathan Meiburg

#29. I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

Kreayshawn

#30. Empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

Michael Coorlim

#31. 1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

Joyce Meyer

#32. This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.

Cynthia Heimel

#33. He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

Jonathan Stroud

#34. There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

Diana Krall

#35. She felt like her whole body was one big network of streamers. If they connected right now, she imagined it would feel about like being struck by lightening.

John Green

#36. I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

Arnold Palmer

#37. There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

A.S. Byatt

#38. Are you kidding me? The woman leaves priceless Ming vases and Picassos lying about like they came off a sale rack at some discount store and she fills a hidden safe with musty old books?

Alexandra Ivy

#39. When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy

Charlotte Bronte

#40. Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Woody Guthrie

#41. They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. And her forehead was a snowy mountain, grand and shining. These were lovely stories.

Hans Christian Andersen

#42. That's the problem with mistakes. You can make'em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and ... Bang.

Joe Abercrombie

#43. I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

Mariah Carey

#44. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.

William Donaldson

#45. Modern dances always seem to me so vulgar. So much hopping about; like a scene from a mental ward!

Sarah Waters

#46. Fish," the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. "Under the sea, the fish eat us.

George R R Martin

#47. I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

D.H. Lawrence

#48. Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

Ellen G. White

#49. Matter how sharp the corner they turned or how deep the pothole they plunged into, Ghastly and Tanith remained perfectly still. Fletcher, on the other hand, was being thrown about like an old shoe in a washing machine, and he did not appreciate it.

Derek Landy

#50. I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.

Bassem Youssef

#51. We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

Audrey Niffenegger

#52. I take it that didn't go well. (Cassandra)
About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#53. She wanted to do damage, gashed red, bleeding, and screaming damage to all and any of the bland facets of social restraint that meshed her about like spiderweb.

Richard K. Morgan

#54. As happy as I would be to forgo the very doubtful pleasure of watching you flop about like an exhausted eel over the least cantrip," he bit out, "we've already seen the consequences of leaving you to your own devices.

Naomi Novik

#55. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

George Meyer

#56. Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

Rafael Nadal

#57. (On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Emma Thompson

#58. Amel slashes at the consonants so that they hop about like naughty children caught inside the sentence.

Fredrik Backman

#59. She thought that to children adult motives and actions must seem as bulking and ominous as dangerous animals seen in the shadows of a dark forest. They were jerked about like puppets, having only the vaguest notions why.

Stephen King

#60. Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and no one would notice.

Kerrigan Byrne

#61. In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#62. For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers. What

C.S. Lewis

#63. Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Garrison Keillor

#64. If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

Wyclef Jean

#65. Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

Lisa McMann

#66. You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."

David Longstreth

#67. When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

Zoe Sugg

#68. Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

Iggy Azalea

#69. Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about - like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.

Philip Yancey

#70. Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Spike Dykes

#71. My life had become a puzzle - its pieces scattered about like paper in the wind, with no one there to chase them but me.

Meredith T. Taylor

#72. Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Jean Anouilh

#73. In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

Philippa Gregory

#74. Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff - relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about' - like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.

E. E. Cummings

#75. Death disapearance was what you didnt talk about. like a sewer running under the street, the shit was down there, out of sight, but you could smell it, it didnt go away, it didnt vanish

Janet Fitch

#76. That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Amor Towles

#77. I love things that are easy to throw on, that I don't have to think about. Like skinny jeans and a T-shirt is easy for me.

Kourtney Kardashian

#78. A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

Si Robertson

#79. They watched the elk gallop and mull about like a new texture being laid, and their presence against the mountains in that high sweet grass was a trellis alive and for a moment it seemed as if the world was reinventing itself and the boy was filled with an inexplicable hope.

Robert Gatewood

#80. I want to be able to run about like the goats do.

Johanna Spyri

#81. Most people don't associate anythin'
their ideas just roll about like so many dry peas on a tray, makin' a lot of noise and goin' nowhere, but once you begin lettin' 'em string their peas into a necklace, it's goin' to be strong enough to hang you, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#82. She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the bathroom. On

Tom Robbins

#83. The future is suddenly unpinned - evolving, spinning, leaping about like a panicked tree-loormor.

Chuck Wendig

#84. And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#85. Do you have to skulk about like that?"
"No, I don't suppose I have to skulk about ... I simply enjoy doing so."
"Well, it's a very vulgar habit.

Alexandra Ivy

#86. I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

Ashton Kutcher

#87. Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.

Robin Hobb

#88. She had learned fear now. And her mind sniffed about like a rat looking for an escape.

John Steinbeck

#89. But I don't want to be grateful. I'm tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it's no worse. I've had enough. It's time the pebble kicked back.

Frances Hardinge

#90. So I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.

Erin Kelly

#91. We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Criss Jami

#92. At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

Anna Sui

#93. I always think about getting randomly hurt and how awesome it would be to just immediately be changed and removed from my situation. To have something direct to worry about, like a broken leg or a really big cut. I'd no longer be a person blending in.

Sam Pink

#94. Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago ... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.

Lorde

#95. Anything happening," she whispered.
"Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?" he asked, in the same low tone.
She nodded, accepting the rebuke. "Aside from that.

John Flanagan

#96. A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Paul Theroux

#97. There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

Woody Allen

#98. I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

Emma Cline

#99. I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'

Lindsey Stirling

#100. Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

Monica Ali