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The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines (Like Quotes)
The ears were large, flaring forward, the eyes limpid amber, in which the pupil floated like a glittering jewel, changing color with shifts of the light: obsidian, emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, diamond (Like Quotes)
Here we were, father and I, shut up in a plain little room, and for the first time in my life having something that might pass for a conversation. We were talking to one another almost like adults; almost like one human being to another; almost like father and daughter. And even though I couldn't think of anything to say, I felt myself wanting it to go on and on until the last star blinked out (Like Quotes)
A peculiar feeling passed over me - or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop open in the rain (Like Quotes)
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't (Like Quotes)
I remembered a piece of sisterly advice, which Feely once gave Daffy and me: "If ever you're accosted by a man, " she'd said, "kick him in the Casanovas and run like blue blazes!" Although it had sounded at the time like a useful bit of intelligence, the only problem was that I didn't know where the Casanovas were located. I'd have to think of something else (Like Quotes)
Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky (Like Quotes)
Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk (Like Quotes)
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat (Like Quotes)
Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden (Like Quotes)
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour (Like Quotes)
Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you're the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside (Like Quotes)
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star (Like Quotes)
To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them (Like Quotes)
There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine (Like Quotes)
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize (Like Quotes)
I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself (Like Quotes)
Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp (Like Quotes)
Wouldn't it be great, as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like (Like Quotes)
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims tidings of good to Zion (Like Quotes)
We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme.... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want (Like Quotes)
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours (Like Quotes)
We do not go [to the theatre], like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it (Like Quotes)
He [the schoolmaster] is awkward, and out of place, in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours (Like Quotes)
For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank (Like Quotes)
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it (Like Quotes)
Danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal (Like Quotes)
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess (Like Quotes)
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter (Like Quotes)
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive (Like Quotes)