Top 100 Best Liked Quotes
#1. It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Salman Rushdie
#2. Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.
Stephen King
#3. I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.
Lianne La Havas
#4. What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
Richard Russo
#5. I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.
Sean William Scott
#6. I knew then that you would always see the positive side because you liked people, and you wanted the best for them. It was intoxicating.
Rachel Joyce
#7. His sister. Oh, shit. I'd eaten my best friend's sister's pussy. And I liked it. I was going to hell.
Belle Aurora
#8. I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
Colleen McCullough
#10. I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.
Clarice Lispector
#11. Of the best things that happened to me at that time, believe it or not, was joining the Boy Scouts. Its leader, Baden-Powell, a genuinely nice man who was well tuned in to what small boys liked doing, did believe that without the scouts the empire would collapse. This
Keith Richards
#12. This was one of the things he'd liked best about Nina- she savored everything, whether it was toffee or cold water from a stream or dried reindeer meat.
Leigh Bardugo
#13. Y'know, if I was a sexy type of undead, like a vampire or something, I'm sure I'd have some kind of supernatural power to bring any guy I liked under my charismatic control.
Best I can hope for is to decompose over someone's shoes. How romantic.
Justin MacCormack
#14. She did know that she liked the way happiness flooded back into his face, eyes on hers suddenly, warm and private, as if he was about to lean over to her and whisper the best secret ever.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#15. As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.
Madeleine Roux
#16. In her also I found what I liked best - an unfailing, kindly welcome without a hint of sentimentality, unruffled good sense, the unobtrusive talent for making all things at all times as cheerful and comfortable as circumstances allowed.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Simon bristled. She wasn't his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn't seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
Meg Cabot
#19. When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.
Usain Bolt
#20. In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful ...
Paul Zindel
#21. Ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it
Sarah Darer Littman
#22. Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them.
Orson Scott Card
#24. I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.
Tom Odell
#25. I liked all their lies best, for I think they are the brightest part of anybody's history.
William Kennedy
#26. I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and when you are a pleaser hellbent on being easy, fun, and flexible.
Brene Brown
#28. She liked it best when he read the X-Men, even though she didn't get everything that was going on there; the X-Men were worse than General Hospital.
Rainbow Rowell
#29. I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
Jim Courier
#30. The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#31. I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.
Lawrence Kasdan
#32. I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?
Kiersten White
#33. Mr. Graves was always using the word weirdo to describe himself and people he liked. He said that all the great writers were "weirdos," too - that our best artists, musicians, and thinkers were first labeled weird in high school or "when they were young." That was "the price of admission.
Matthew Quick
#34. So it - we have one enduring, uh, idea that will always live on with the Smothers Brothers, that 'Mom always liked you best.' We're the universal, uh, feeling that every child, every sibling has had somewhere along the line. Or, 'Who did she like best?' And that became kind of a little mantra.
Tom Smothers
#35. Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.
C.S. Lewis
#36. A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
Alan Sugar
#37. Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.
Kate Grenville
#38. I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.
Stephanie Rice
#39. I liked me and I had been well drilled in good manners by Aunt Penny, who had often told me the best manners meant being thoughtful, a good listener and watching what everyone else was doing and deciding if it was worth trying.
Merabeth James
#40. If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.
David McCullough
#41. When I thought about it, though, what I liked best about the session was that Helder said fuck. A good, hard word, a word with a life of its own, a fearless word. A rent in the dry elegance. Fuck.
Heather Sellers
#42. She liked to hear people tell stories. The saddest ones were the best. She wondered if that meant anything at all.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn't your fairy-tale Prince Charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but I liked him best when that stuff fell away.
John Green
#44. I had felt guilty but honored. Genevieve liked me best. We were close,closer than with anyone else. The bracelets were proof. How cheaply I was bought then, with just a bracelet made out of string.
Jenny Han
#45. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
Charles Bukowski
#46. Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.
C.S. Lewis
#47. She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.
Robert Sheckley
#48. His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.
Sam Lipsyte
#50. I really liked it best when I was a nobody.
Eric Heiden
#51. I'd always liked our inside jokes the best - they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.
Gillian Flynn
#52. The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.
Leigh Bardugo
#53. But what I liked the best was that, while the room giggled at her request, she didn't duck her head or blush or think to ask for something else. She wanted what she wanted.
There was something charming about that.
Kiera Cass
#54. I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
Pete Best
#55. I really like playing with Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing. He was cool. He opened up some shows for us. I liked playing with G. Love, he's amazing. God Damn, it was like the best live I had ever seen.
Mason Jennings
#56. This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.
Elise Broach
#57. Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.
Terry Pratchett
#58. When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
Agnes Obel
#59. When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
Linda Sue Park
#60. But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.
Aidan Chambers
#61. Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever. End of story.
John Green
#62. But as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
Catherynne M Valente
#63. To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor - Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him.
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. Ruth Bracket's arms moved backward and forward in rhythmic motion. She was rowing, yet no sound came from her oarlocks. Oars and oarlocks were padded. She liked it best that way. Why? Mystery - that magic word "mystery." How she loved it!
Mildred A. Wirt
#65. Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
James Earl Jones
#66. Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.
Guy Debord
#67. Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
David Nicholls
#68. I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.
Cheech Marin
#69. I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.
Jason Newsted
#70. You said I could pet you as long as I liked."
"Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting."
Her eyes snapped up to meet his. "That's feline logic. You're a wolf."
"I'm learning from the best.
Nalini Singh
#71. He wanted to come along, said the one in the corner, the only one who hadn't yet tried to kill Phillip. Phillip decided he liked this one best, especially when he wrapped his hand around Gregory's forearm to prevent the younger man from launching himself at Eloise. Which,
Julia Quinn
#72. It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.
Alice Hoffman
#73. I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
Jose Carreras
#74. That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.
Rachel Cohn
#75. I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
David Knopfler
#76. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.
Dale Peck
#77. I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
Chester Brown
#78. Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
Nikola Tesla
#79. A woman liked a free rein to walk all over a man's life; the best thing a man could do was pick a woman who walked carefully.
-Jack
Claudia Dain
#80. Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.
P.L. Travers
#81. The best part, without any question, was the tie. I've always liked ties, but it seemed like too much of a Statement to wear them.
Maureen Johnson
#82. Ruger liked a touch of pain, I decided, so I did my best to crush him with my inner muscles. I'm generous that way.
Joanna Wylde
#83. And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
Louisa May Alcott
#84. But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.
Guy Maddin
#85. Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
Sue Monk Kidd
#86. I know it is possible to feel this way about other people," I began, pointing to my heart, "I know that there are a lot of ways to love and that each person I date will bring out a different part of me and I will love them all differently. But I always like how I liked you the best.
Elna Baker
#87. And she had discovered the best reason, the one that trumps all others: She did it because she liked the way it made her feel. Is
Jonathan Raymond
#88. George Sanders's had been the best, an Old Hollywood classic, my father had known it by heart and liked to quote from it. Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored.
Donna Tartt
#89. I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack of migrating deer. Look how relaxed she is. Better than a spa day.
Kim Harrison
#90. I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.
Bent Saether
#91. She was a level of bitch that I liked to refer to as "fuck that". As in, upon seeing her, your best option was to say "fuck that" and flee in the opposite direction.
R.K. Lilley
#92. It was one of the best things about him; he liked to talk about people, study them, and work them out. He was interested in the complexities of relationships.
Liane Moriarty
#93. That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you sillies, you DIDN'T REALLY like the plan you chose for yourselves! No arguing. Barack Obama knows best, and he'll tell you whether you actually liked your insurance plan or not.
Sarah Palin
#94. The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.
Terry Pratchett
#95. I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.
Lou Piniella
#96. I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.
William Monahan
#97. I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.
Mary Decker
#98. You may remember that on earth - though of course we never confessed it - the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.
George Bernard Shaw
#99. Main Street, which they were on, was a pretty street, even at night, and it looked old-fashioned in the best sense of the word - as if, for a hundred years, people had been caring for that street and they had not been in a hurry to lose anything they liked.
Neil Gaiman
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