Top 100 Is Like Quotes
#1. Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
Quincy Jones
#2. Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
Richard M. Nixon
#3. Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.
Warren Farrell
#4. The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler
#5. The rhythm of life runs in cycles. There are times in the darkness and times in the light. The energy of life is like the rain forest in Borneo. Things live, grow, die, fall to the forest floor, rot and then they are born again-Olympia Dukakis
Ellyn Spragins
#6. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.
Scott Adams
#7. The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#8. Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.
Sara Nelson
#9. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Bruce Catton
#10. Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.
Malcolm Cowley
#11. Why not?" she asks petulantly. "Give me one good reason we shouldn't." "Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil?" I tell her. "I don't know." "Yes?" she says. "And?" "With braces?" I finish, shrugging.
Bret Easton Ellis
#12. The road snakes south, then north, ultimately taking us east, and I wonder if life is like that. Go one way, then another, to end up someplace else.
Ellen Hopkins
#13. A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
Andrei Platonov
#14. The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
William Shenstone
#15. Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.
Miya Yamanouchi
#16. Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
Steve Schirripa
#17. Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.
Sara Sheridan
#18. Writing is like a battle. You're often so into it you don't have any high ideals. You're just doing it. I have all these boxing prints on my walls. I always feel that's what I am, a boxer. I get my brains knocked out every so often.
James Purdy
#19. Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on.
Melanie Raabe
#20. Watching myself age is like watching an explosion far out in a calm sea.
Kate Llewellyn
#21. Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.
Jim Rohn
#22. The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love.
Fernando Pessoa
#24. Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
Sam Keen
#26. Your soul is like a compass, tells you where to go, but not how to get there
Archie Bunker
#27. Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
James Buchan
#28. Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Gautama Buddha
#29. Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.
Anacreon
#30. My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
Alex Honnold
#31. Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.
Ron Moody
#32. Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.
Tim O'Reilly
#33. Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
Julian Schnabel
#34. Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit
Juhi Chawla
#35. Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
Robert Downey Jr.
#36. I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel De Cervantes
#37. Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.
Harriet Van Horne
#39. For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.
Michael Lind
#40. Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.
Kevin R. Stone
#41. The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.
Pierre Coupey
#42. Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.
Haruki Murakami
#43. A workplace desk is like a woman's handbag; it's private and a necessity.
Christine M. Knight
#44. Las Vegas is like huge fake breasts. Nothing is real, just plastic. It is all provided with a clean veneer over the grime of its purpose, to swindle. And I don't gamble
Komrade Komura
#45. Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.
Henry Ward Beecher
#46. Saying 'Preach the Gospel Daily, use words if necessary' is like saying 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary.'
Ligon Duncan
#47. The paradise of praying is like a palace of full of precious things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#50. Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you.
Joe Navarro
#51. Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.
Shah Rukh Khan
#52. You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.
Carl Sagan
#53. The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Julius Charles Hare
#54. Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.
Tom Douglas
#55. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan W. Watts
#57. Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar ... They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.
Dustin Hoffman
#58. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.
Tarryn Fisher
#59. The way he's looking at me is like I'm the only beating heart in the world.
Brenna Yovanoff
#60. Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are paying yourself with health. Do you know what a cookie is like? It is Monopoly money! You're giving your body fraudulent currency.
Alissa Nutting
#61. Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window.
Wallace Stegner
#62. Getting something done is like digging a well. You can dig a well seventy feet deep, but if you don't hit water it's just an abandoned well.
Mencius
#63. Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious!
Jon Stewart
#64. Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Orson Welles
#65. The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
Abraham Kuyper
#66. Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.
Jennifer Carpenter
#67. The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Margaret Deland
#68. Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stomach lies politely beside me, like a puppy.
Anne Lamott
#69. The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren
#71. To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
Gregory Benford
#72. Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.
Anonymous
#73. The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
Madeline Claire Franklin
#74. Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#75. Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Khalil Gibran
#76. Hatred is like a plague. It is all-consuming, and it springs from man to man.
David Gemmell
#77. In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.
Dan Chaon
#78. The worst financial decision you can ever make in your life, is to steal something. The second is like it, and that is to cheat someone. Even, if it would appear that you were never brought to account for it.
Strive Masiyiwa
#79. Loyalty is like the Doctrine of Celibacy - easy to proclaim but damned difficult to live by.
Michael Dobbs
#80. Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant.
Chris Prentiss
#81. Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.
Anne Graham Lotz
#82. Recent events lead me to believe the world is like that, too
people are the individual fragments, but we are also part of the whole mirror. We are connected, not only to one another but also to the fabric of the universe.
Wendy Mass
#83. Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#84. Fire in the fireplace is a wonderful thing. Fire on the carpet has the potential to burn down your house. Sex is like fire. In the right context, it is an awesome thing. But once it is outside the context it was designed for, sex can burn your life and relationships to the ground.
Andy Stanley
#85. Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice
Rick Riordan
#86. Your soul is like a drop of water yearning to return to the ocean. There it will cease to exist as an individual and instead become a greater existence. It becomes an entire ocean.
Douglas James Cottrell
#87. Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
Anthony Venn-Brown
#88. Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.
Ruth Downie
#89. I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a week or live theater.
Shawnee Smith
#90. In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
Edith Wharton
#92. Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come
Mario Puzo
#93. Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Peace Pilgrim
#94. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
David Einhorn
#95. I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.
Albert Finney
#96. All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.
Sam Haskins
#97. Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.
Paul J. Silvia
#98. If you have no story you have nothing to live up to, and every day is like a renewal
Brian E. Miller
#99. Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
Alex Pettyfer
#100. Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
Anthony Daniels
