Something Like Quotes

836 Something Like quotes by 686 unique authors

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change… — Carl Sagan
Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet… — Jennifer Weiner
Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling… — Tite Kubo
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed… — Charles Bukowski
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. — George Bernard Shaw
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something… — Carson McCullers
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,… — Maurice Blanchot
She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door… — Bret Easton Ellis
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this… — Jonathan Safran Foer
What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an… — David Almond
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet. — Soren Kierkegaard
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can… — Ted Dekker
I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great… — C.S. Lewis
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in… — Markus Zusak
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be… — Charlotte Bronte
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck.… — Shannon Hale
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… — Marguerite Duras
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything.… — Stephen King
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can… — Shane Claiborne
I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn… — Anne Lamott
Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to… — Haruki Murakami
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in,… — Timothy Egan

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