Top 100 Are Like Quotes
#1. Psychopaths ... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.
Elmore Leonard
#2. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#3. Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet
#4. Wicked and cruel boy! I said. You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors!
Charlotte Bronte
#5. Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.
Ramani Durvasula
#6. When you're a choreographer and you put so much into a routine that's emotionally driven, those are like my ideas and my little babies that I have here and then I put them out there and they're there to be judged and looked at. When it's all over, it's just such a relief.
Derek Hough
#7. The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
A. G. Mohan
#8. The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.
Voltaire
#9. I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.
Martin Luther
#10. Hee hee hee!" Nero said. "You children are like three clowns!"
"Ho ho ho!" Count Olaf said.
"Ha ha ha!" Violet said, who was beginning to feel queasy from faking all this laughter.
Lemony Snicket
#11. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin
#12. You get a good review, and it's like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it's a slippery slope.
Alexandra Bracken
#13. You are like the actor who, at the end of the play, with a final word, reveals that he is a different character than the one he appeared to be playing.
Edouard Leve
#14. We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.
Steven Pinker
#16. Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
Mario Puzo
#17. Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.
Shelly Mazzanoble
#18. If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.
Cyril Connolly
#19. The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.
Lamar Hunt
#20. Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow
Shimon Peres
#21. His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
Emily Giffin
#22. Temptations are like dirty dishes. There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up. And there are some who must do them right away.
Daniel Handler
#23. Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.
David Eddings
#24. The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.
Marc Jacobs
#25. People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.
Clive Barker
#26. They are like actors playing a role, sometimes enjoying their role on stage, but usually relieved to leave it
Kelley Armstrong
#27. When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
Lee Daniels
#28. Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#29. When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.
Kevin Heffernan
#30. We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad
Catherine Anderson
#31. I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.
Joyce Banda
#32. When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."
Eva Mendes
#33. Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
Antonio Tabucchi
#34. Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach ... And people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them.
Loretta Ellsworth
#35. First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable.
A. J. Jacobs
#36. The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius
#37. I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.
Michelle M. Pillow
#38. Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.
Beverly Engel
#39. That's the thing about angry words - once you spill them out, they are like a broken jar of honey on the floor, all sticky and mess. And no matter how hard you try to clean it up, you can always feel that sticky part of the tile" -Cordie
Shelley Moore Thomas
#41. Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
Honore De Balzac
#42. Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard
#43. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. ten years of whorehouse joy I'm alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky
Stephen Berg
#45. They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life. And they are the Blind of Spirit who never find Love, because they do not know how to love and do not let themselves be loved
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#46. Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
Charles Spurgeon
#47. Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.
You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.
Manoj Arora
#48. Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part.
Robert Christian
#49. Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher
#50. Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
Feist
#51. Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.
Tim Radford
#52. Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.
Arlo Guthrie
#53. We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
Gale Forman
#54. All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Alain Robert
#55. When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Tony Robbins
#56. Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
Helmut Jahn
#57. Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take you right to the stars and the beyond! And such are the thoughts of Buddha!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
Amit Ray
#60. States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
Roger Scruton
#61. Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can't see them, then right when you walk by them, they're quiet.
Israel Houghton
#62. Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
Samuel Johnson
#63. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
Arthur Golden
#65. I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
Kevin J. Anderson
#66. I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
Jeanette Winterson
#67. Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.
Jan Morris
#68. The religious situation of our people is very unstable. This is because of the lack of religious teachers and other dedicated people. As a result Fiji Indians are like an unsteady boat in a whirlpool.
Totaram Sanadhya
#69. The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
Dave Rowntree
#71. The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
Christian Louboutin
#72. Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.
Allison Mack
#73. Fine manners are like personal beauty,
a letter of credit everywhere.
C. A. Bartol
#74. I'm crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical - I'm just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too.
Richard Mille
#75. Children are like fingers. No matter which finger you bite, it hurts.
Choi Woo-shik
#76. The two of us are lIke sunshine and the rain. Together... We are the wellspring of all life. But between us, there will will bloom no flowers. We shall bear no fruit. For us, all of time... Shall be evergreen.
"And that's fine. I will be here always. To you... I give eternity."
Hotaka
Yuyuko Takemiya
#77. Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.
Richard Preston
#78. [Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#79. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
#80. Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.
James Crumley
#81. Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Ed Coan
#82. Terrorists are like zebras; those having more white stripes than black are good terrorists,those with more black stripes than white are bad ones.
Shahid Hussain Raja
#83. Self-doubts are like weeds; if you don't deal with them right away, they multiply. And before you know it, your garden looks like a jungle in Vietnam.
Emma Chase
#84. When I've practiced acceptance, when I've floated instead of fought, when I've rested, even for a moment, on the surface instead of wrestling the water itself. And those moments are like heaven.
Shauna Niequist
#85. I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.
Kumail Nanjiani
#86. We want them to have appropriate conversations. They need to live appropriate lives. We are guarding against all inappropriate ideas and thoughts that may arise inside their criminal minds. They are reborn here, they are like little fetuses, and we must raise these fetuses. Everything is gone.
Noah Cicero
#87. Some directors are like it's their ... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.
Louis Leterrier
#88. My granny always says Women are like angels, when someone breaks our wings we continue to fly around on our broomsticks because we're flexible like that
Sophie Monroe
#89. Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.
Phil Cousineau
#90. Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
Stephen Leigh
#91. All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Joseph Joubert
#92. We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.
Steve Goodier
#94. Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.
Willie Smits
#95. Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.
Sydney Banks
#96. Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
Dan Phillips
#97. Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their egos.
Jessica Thompson
#98. I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.
DJ Qualls
#99. Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.
Julie Bowen
