He Was Like Quotes

#1. Tyler commanded attention because he was like a tiger. Mesmerizing and possessing something that suggested it was wise not to turn your back on him, any more than it would be a wise move to run.

Joey W. Hill

#2. He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

Julian Lennon

#3. Dirty talk is an art. Do it too often, it becomes routine. Never do it, and you're missing something. Simon did it just right. He was like a perfect bowl of smutty porridge: just right.

Alice Clayton

#4. Rawr! I'm a duke of Hell, bitches!' and then he was like, 'This is my turf! Welcome to Castle Cocksucker!' and then he was all, 'You're all gonna die!' and then it was, 'Fuck, this sword hurts!' and finally he was like, 'Oh fuck, I'm dead!

Elliott Kay

#5. People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.

J. Lynn

#6. He was like one people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn't value Him. Isaiah 53:3

Beth Moore

#7. Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

Horace Walpole

#8. I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

Tom Cavanagh

#9. He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

Richard Ford

#10. It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."

Steven Yeun

#11. The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do ... 'You're going to be raped, be naked ... ' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'

Rooney Mara

#12. One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.

Shaquille O'Neal

#13. She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.

Anna Godbersen

#14. God Almighty, I might've just committed a cardinal sin just by thinking it, but he was like Cam 2.0.

J. Lynn

#15. When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

Billy Wilder

#16. He was like a star in the night sky above and she but a sparrow. No matter how high she might try to fly, she'd never reach him.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#17. My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.

Isabella Bird

#18. One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

Kelley Armstrong

#19. He was like a paperweight, but less mobile.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#20. He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

Linda McCartney

#21. He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.

Oscar Wilde

#22. By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

Lena Olin

#23. I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."

Alicia Keys

#24. Everything from the brim of this hat to the hem of her dress was too complex for Daniel's eye to comprehend - he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible - but

Neal Stephenson

#25. Kissing Jack was dangerous, like drowning in something that tasted good. He was like the artery-clogging chocolate cake she couldn't resist, heaven in her mouth but hell on her heart.

Amanda Usen

#26. He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life.

Tina Wright

#27. I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Lauren Oliver

#28. I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

Herb Ritts

#29. I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

Stewart Lee

#30. He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache

Louise Penny

#31. Jem thought of Jace Herondale. How he was like Will if someone had struck a match to Will and gilded him in living fire.

Cassandra Clare

#32. He was like a lion, eager to feed but still stalking his prey. He didn't want to scare her off. But she was helpless in her own desire for him.

Sylvain Reynard

#33. He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story.

Katie Kacvinsky

#34. He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his clumsy way, he was like a prince who arrived with sweaty armpits and bad hair. At least I'm here, he might have said. That's better than nothing. And it was.

Cammie McGovern

#35. He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.

Sadie Jones

#36. Edward's house. I'd never really hoped to see where he lived. He was like Batman. He rode into town, saved your ass, then vanished, and you never really expected an invitation to see the Bat Cave. Now here I was standing in front of it. Cool. It

Laurell K. Hamilton

#37. I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

John Cusack

#38. Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Eric Clapton

#39. he was like smog: there were always some of his molecules in the air.

Margaret Atwood

#40. Sexually he was like a dose of anesthetic, he made her go dead all over, but he was so nice!

Judith Rossner

#41. He was like a drug and what did you do with drugs You pushed them as far away as possible.

Colleen Houck

#42. He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.

Tana French

#43. He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

David Guterson

#44. Mother always said he was like a lake, calm on the surface though a powerful current rumbled beneath. Tristan, meanwhile, was the ocean - his feelings frothed and foamed on the surface, crashing like waves into every situation.

Karen Hawkins

#45. He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

Octavia E. Butler

#46. He looked in her eyes, and she wondered if she made a good decision starting something like that with a guy like Nero. She knew he was like a wolf. The man was definitely an animal, and he looked at her only as food. Yet that excited a small part of Elle, and that was what scared her the most

Sarah Brianne

#47. He was like a knife, all harsh angles and violent promises.

Katherine Pine

#48. I was working with Michael Shannon and I was like, "Oh man I'm having trouble with this scene." And he's like, "Well, then just open it up." I was like, "But, the mark?" And I was like, what's wrong with me? And he was like, "Dude, what's wrong with you?"

Jake Gyllenhaal

#49. He was like a seed still tethered to the withered flower, just waiting for the dead air of the late summer evening to break, for the storm to begin.

Ken Liu

#50. Thanks," I say, and Finn looks uncomfortable. Mum used to say he was like a faerie; he didn't like to be thanked. I add, "Sorry.

Maggie Stiefvater

#51. Scott had some sort of power, or force field. In essence, he was like fucking gay guy repellant. Not a single gay guy would come anywhere near me, let alone talk to or hit on me when he was around.

Jayson James

#52. All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He'd prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.

Nicole Krauss

#53. The traditional sacred king was himself of a divine nature and the 'gods' were his peers; he was, like them, of 'celestial' stock, he had the same blood as they; he was thus a centre, an affirmative, free, and cosmic principle.

Julius Evola

#54. After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'

Angie Harmon

#55. The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me.

Sadegh Hedayat

#56. He was like a young tiger, all muscle and passion, and she wanted to ride him
not to tame the beast, but to feel for a small moment all of his vitality.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#57. And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.

Nick Lowe

#58. She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Sarah Dunn

#59. We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig- uh, the - America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.

Rick Santorum

#60. Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Ann Brashares

#61. He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through.

Darynda Jones

#62. He's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.

Gillian Flynn

#63. Seen from across the street, he was like someone to whom the world had long since given notice to quit but who was compelled to stay in it, no longer belonging to it, but unable to leave it.

Thomas Bernhard

#64. He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

James McBride

#65. Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Richard Widmark

#66. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

Iain Pears

#67. For once, I understood the Caleb mania. He was like a jalapeno, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bit him.

Tarryn Fisher

#68. I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.

Shiloh Fernandez

#69. In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.

Tim O'Brien

#70. He was like water - cold, deep, unpredictable, and, like the pond up the canyon, dangerous, because you could never see what was beneath the surface. And just like I'd done all my life, I jumped in head first, even though I'd been forbidden. But this time, I drowned.

Amy Harmon

#71. Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

Gary Barlow

#72. He was like one great big Sunday afternoon
the kind where you stay in your PJs and watch movies and eat popcorn. Where life is at it's uncomplicated best.

Deb Caletti

#73. My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.

Jaden Smith

#74. He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas, turning everything he touched into pain.

Nenia Campbell

#75. He was like this when I got here?' That's you alibi?

Karen Chance

#76. the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She said he was like Jim Morrison if he was like anybody, but really, he isn't like anybody but himself.

Stephen Chbosky

#77. The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

David Nail

#78. Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

Zen Cho

#79. He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

Sid Luckman

#80. He looked like Bree, didn't he? He was like her?" "Yes." He breathed heavily, almost a snort. "I could see it in your face - when you'd look at her, I could see you thinking of him. Damn you, Claire Beauchamp," he said, very softly.

Diana Gabaldon

#81. Fear was keeping this loon going, as he was scrambling under the tables in this packed club, it was as if he was in a Carry On film and trying to hide from me. As the bouncers arrived, I was putting the boot in to the plonker without much success. He was like a bumblebee on speed!

Stephen Richards

#82. Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.

Zayn Malik

#83. He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed.

Joseph Heller

#84. I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Daniel Keyes

#85. He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

Graham Greene

#86. I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still doing my catering work. I told my director I had to miss rehearsal because I had to work a party. He was like, 'You're on TV. You need to get over that.'

Seth Numrich

#87. He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

Gish Jen

#88. I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

Domo Genesis

#89. But that was Rishi... he was like a pop song you thought you couldn't stand, but found yourself humming in the shower anyway.

Sandhya Menon

#90. My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

Ed Bradley

#91. He was like a bottle and music was the wine.... She liked to be near him when it poured.

Carolina De Robertis

#92. He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly ... that tartness was part of the allure all along.

Victoria Kahler

#93. He was like nothing she'd ever known.
Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.

Ross Turner

#94. He was no longer strictly a man, if he had ever been one. He was like an onion, slowly peeling away one layer at a time, only it was the trappings of humanity that seemed to be peeling away: organized reflection, memory, possibly even free will ... if there ever had been such a thing.

Stephen King

#95. He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#96. He was like an idiot savant without the savant part.

Robert Kroese

#97. He was like an undead boomerang. A zomberang.

Devon Monk

#98. Basically, there's a good friend of mine who works at EMI Publishing, a publishing company. He had asked me - he was like, you know, do you know this girl, Amy Winehouse? She's in New York for a day. She's kind of meeting people to maybe work with on her second album.

Mark Ronson

#99. Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!

Peter Jacobson

#100. My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Gwyneth Paltrow