Something Like Quotes

836 Something Like quotes by 686 unique authors

Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse… — Obert Skye
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased… — Simone de Beauvoir
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show.… — Oprah Winfrey
You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me… — Nicholas Sparks
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your… — Anne Sexton
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did… — Catherine Ryan Hyde
For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things.… — Banana Yoshimoto
Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party… — Stephen Chbosky
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they… — Evelyn Waugh
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. — Elizabeth Gilbert
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his… — George Eliot
it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself. — Robin McKinley
I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not… — Stephen Chbosky
When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school. — Carlton Mellick III
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through… — Victor Hugo
You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for… — Ilona Andrews
Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever… — Julie James
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled… — Harmony Korine
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over,… — Muriel Spark
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle… — Stephen King
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb… — Jon Krakauer
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled. — Bette Greene
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. — Dave Eggers

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