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if a girl likes me a lotand starts getting real nervousand suddenly begins asking me funny questionsand looks sad if I give the wrong answersand she says things like,"Do you think it's going to rain?"and I say, "It beats me,"and she says, "Oh,"and looks a little sadat the clear blue California sky,I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.
Richard Brautigan— "It's Raining In Love"
I’m the type of person that likes to dream big, and I’ve often found that every great journey begins with a dream
joseph pisani— Radio Interview, Radio Osttirol, March 22, 2008, by Werner Gatterer
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
joseph addison— No. 115. (The Guardian (1713))
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
antisthenes— Xenophon, Symposium, iv. 35
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
antisthenes— Xenophon, Symposium, iv. 35
God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.510
If there's a stack [of novels to review], the unpromising stuff goes at the top and the promising stuff goes at the bottom. That way, I am eager to finish Overwrought Romantic Mary Sue Fantasy because I know that will let me read Niche Product That Only the Author, James and Some Guy at JPL likes.
james nicoll— Usenet article (2005)
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
joan didion— 1961 'On Self Respect', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).
That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
— 1929 Art-nonsense and Other Essays,'Slavery and Freedom'.
No man likes to see his emotions the sport of a merry- go-round of skittishness.
thomas hardy— 1874 Far from the Madding Crowd, ch.4.
He's a lovely guy, that Ricky Ponting. He likes the English so much he changed the series for them with the most stupid decision he'll ever make in his life.
geoff boycott— On Ponting's decision to bowl at the crucial Edgbaston Ashes Test, 2005. Via Cricinfo.
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
malcolm bradbury— Rates of Exchange, part 5, ch. 3.
I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches a certain age she likes, she should stick with it.
Eva Gabor— As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 18
She's got a sister / God only knows how I missed her / And on the palm of her hand is a blisterShe's got a brother / We don't get on with one another / But I quite fancy her mother / And I think that she likes meShe's got one in the oven / But it's nothing to do with me"
Noel Gallagher— She's Electric
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
jack osbourne— MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery
I used to get nervous for Elaine before a show, but not any more. She likes to be really well prepared for a role; she's very hard on herself. I'd never want to put myself through that kind of stress.
elaine paige— Paige's sister, Marion Billings, in "Relative Values: Elaine Paige, singer, and her sister, Marion" by Sue Fox in The Times (23 May 2004)
One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
eliot spitzer— William D. Cohan (July 1, 2012). How Wall Street Scams Counties into Bankruptcy. Bloomberg L.P.. Retrieved on 2012-10-15.
She's ma lady love, she is ma dove, ma baby love,She's no gal for sittin' down to dream,She's de only queen Laguna knows;I know she likes me, I know she likes meBekase she says so; She is de Lily of Laguna,she is ma Lily and ma Rose.
leslie stuart— Song Lily of Laguna
Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon Told his harem on the night they'd had a few: "Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomack Sonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac." Translation: "If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back." That's a motto for the likes of me and you.
billy bennett— "Mottoes", line 41
These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.
jack london— Chapter One (The Sea-Wolf (1904))
I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi , Bin Laden, Hitler , and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.
john mccain— On the death of Kim Jong-il[47], 19 December 2011.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller— Willy (Death of a Salesman (1949))
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Tacitus— Book I, 1. (Histories (100-110))
It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 44 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VI, line 350.
I have…read it with a good deal of amusement and enjoyment. The latter is due, I suppose, entirely to the subject – for everyone likes to imagine what a man could do if he were a dictator or Pope, or Caliph; the amusement is mainly at the author's expence. The style is one of the most preposterous I have ever read, and I doubt if I ever saw so much pedantry combined with so much ignorance.
— C. S. Lewis, letter to Arthur Greeves dated October 1, 1934, cited from W. H. Lewis (ed.) The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004) vol. 2, p. 143
Funny scene, likesay, how aw the psychos seem tae ken each other, ken what ah means, likes?
— Spud, "Kicking Again: Na Na and Other Nazis" (Chapter 3, Story 2)
"He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain."
alice walker— Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy
Even if you are pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus.
— Vilma Valdez, Education Director Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, The Miami Herald (October 24, 1992).
