Top 100 Them Like Quotes
#1. I understand you've been spending some time in the company of my son." Adam's father had a disconcerting stare. His eyes were hazel, close in color to my own, but there was an uncanny awareness in them - like he knew what you'd had for breakfast that morning and how you would sleep that night.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#2. We all laced together - a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.
Ruta Sepetys
#3. One cannot make bargains for blisses
Or catch them like fishes in nets
And sometimes the things that life misses
Help more than the things that it gets.
Alice Carey
#4. The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.
Katherine Paterson
#5. ...Southern women are impossible to live with because they will never find a man who treats them like their daddy did.
Maryln Schwartz
#6. He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
Andrew Vachss
#7. Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
Scott Westerfeld
#8. Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
Nicholas Meyer
#9. We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.
Alice Cary
#10. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
#11. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.
Jennifer Niven
#12. Damn it, Emily. I'm responsible for your safety." "Then wear a condom!" "Jesus," he said, breathing out hard. "I was right before. You definitely have multiple personalities." My eyes narrowed. "Yeah, well maybe I do, and none of them like you!
Alison Bliss
#13. I don't see why she didn't ditch both of them. Like being single is terminal
J. Cassidy
#14. My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.
Paul Brown
#15. But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.
Mike Bond
#16. If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.
Dave Barry
#17. I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
Anna Kendrick
#18. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
Tamora Pierce
#19. I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
Bill Hicks
#20. when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here, the books I have written will still be here, and with them like those before me, I will live forever as long as one person reads one page of my world.
Shawn Hilton
#21. Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.
Rush Limbaugh
#22. One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
Nancy Mitford
#23. Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
Grant Morrison
#24. I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
Carter Burwell
#25. In the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.
Shusha Guppy
#26. What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)? ... It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes, which is what I think any parent would do.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#27. One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
#28. My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day ... I guarded them like precious pearls ... It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
Carl Jung
#29. Oooh, hey, sex camp! Yeah. That's the ticket. We need to start a sex camp where women can tell their hubbies they're going to a fat farm and instead of the boot camp diet with Nazi dieticians, they go to the beach and have hot men treat them like goddesses! (Chrissy)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
Vera Wang
#31. I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.
Claire McCaskill
#32. There's always a 'but' when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but ... a couple of them like to dress like superheroes on the weekend and I can't help but wonder if they're nuts. - Logan
Nicholas Sparks
#33. The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
Tom Stoppard
#34. The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.
Don Winslow
#35. Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.
Christopher Moore
#36. Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey
#37. Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?
Carol Shields
#38. The chandelier's teardrop crystals twinkled above them like stars. It was easy to imagine that they were miles away from London, and that only the two of them existed.
Anna Bennett
#39. The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
Arthur Erickson
#40. The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Dakota Fanning
#41. I want so badly to take all her words and fit them like the pieces of a puzzle into the hole in my heart
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#42. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.
Donna Lynn Hope
#43. Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults?
& their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again.
Brian Andreas
#44. With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.
Shuggie Otis
#45. I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#46. Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
Leon Bourgeois
#47. The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.
Shannon Hale
#48. You don't have to sleep with guys," I whispered, "to make them like you."
Kya stared at me for a moment with heavy eyelids. "You don't get it, do you, Gracie? I sleep with them so they won't like me." My heart broke for her a little more.
Janet Gurtler
#49. When you read a book, it's like you're becoming an actor, taking on the roles of a dozen different people, coming to know and love them like you know yourself. It's one of the best ways to experience another life, to become something that you are not.
Brandon Sanderson
#50. Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership ... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
Ross Perot
#51. If that's what you want, I'll give that to you. However, I need you to know that my heart, my mind and my soul belong to you. No one else can touch them like you because you and I both know that we are mates.
Brey King
#52. Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.
Art Linkletter
#53. Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.
Kate Forsyth
#54. Tourists, a lot of them, wearing unfamiliar faces. There is something subtly different about them, like they're a different species ... They're related to us like Dove is related to the water horses.
Maggie Stiefvater
#55. I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#56. I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, "Let me just lean into being a guy who can't read or write."
Charlie Day
#57. Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.
Bauvard
#58. I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
Danai Gurira
#59. You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
John Hartford
#60. You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
Edwidge Danticat
#61. I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#62. Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.
John Banville
#63. I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn't afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. We're off to see the wizard, he shouted. He whooped. His body crouched ready to fly. He shone against the sun.
Francesca Lia Block
#65. I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.
Frances Mayes
#66. Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.
China Mieville
#67. You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.
Aaron Allston
#69. Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
W.S. Merwin
#70. Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
Fannie Hurst
#71. Don't ever run away from your problems. Chase after them like a crazy person till they're too afraid to come near you again.
Zanib Mian
#72. Wherever you are, dear butterfly, keep flapping your chaotic wings. Flap them. Flap them like your little life depends upon it... or at least my little death.
Qwen Salsbury
#73. That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.
Shaquille O'Neal
#74. Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya
#75. I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.
Lucinda Williams
#76. The natives of those remote deserts have glorified stones, because they assure in their capacity for resistance, that there is a force, enclosed forever inside of them, like the fruit of an eternal will.
Leonardo Padura
#77. She didn't need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren't necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn't control them like she once thought.
Holly Hood
#78. Some of these images intricately make me feel that I know these places. I see them like I've lived them...a stirring that is so real. A longing a sadness a connection that pulls fully and really
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#79. The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#80. They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year.
Dean Bakopoulos
#81. They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels.
Lilith Saintcrow
#82. Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti
#83. Now in my middle fifties, an irrelevant codger, I find it discomfiting to see this generation dancing to the music of apocalypse and carrying their psychic burdens in front of them like infants in arms.
Julie Schumacher
#84. She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.
Sarah Addison Allen
#85. One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
Peter Carey
#86. He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.
Charles Dickens
#87. When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.
Renzo Rosso
#88. Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.
And that better thing is us.
Scott Westerfeld
#89. The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#90. I went to law school at Alabama and I grew up a loyal Auburn fan. I'm one of the few that wrestles with those issues sometimes, but we're really proud of them. Like the University of Alabama has almost doubled its enrollment.
Jeff Sessions
#91. The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt.
Michael Chabon
#92. That's the way to get the chicks for free. And getting the chicks for free is the only true pursuit for a grown-up male. Before puberty, of course, it's avoiding them like the plague.
John Ringo
#93. I'm drawn to look tough. The arched eyebrows are just there - I don't do them like that. I have strong features, but I wish I could be tougher.
Eva Mendes
#94. While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have, are worried. They're a very stressed people. It seems to be a very essential component of the national psyche.
Jonathan Meades
#95. Do you dwell on everyone's junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can't stop thinking about what's in everyone's pants?
Brie Spangler
#96. Her breasts have a soft expanding look about them, like rising bread.
Alissa Nutting
#97. You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.
Mark Margolis
#98. They seemed to fall forever. Geryon retained an iron-edged grip on the trembling Kadence, her hair whipping around them like angry silk ribbons. She didn't scream something he'd expected, but she did turn and wind her legs around him, something he had not.
Gena Showalter
#99. When you help others, your own troubles aren't as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They're still there, but they're not the only thing you carry.
Alice Hoffman
#100. I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Nina Hagen
