In Like Quotes

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker."

Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

It's not about the way you look It's not about your face It's all about the way you think It's all about your grace You're love is like a power chase You're like an oak tree growing in a flower vase

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.

If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

Nothing heals like love and time

Always walk around like you have on an invisible tiara.

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.

I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.