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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))
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'.
The layman's Constitutional view is that what he likes is Constitutional and that which he doesn't like is un-Constitutional. That about measures up the Constitutional acumen of the average person.
hugo black— News conference, Washington, D.C., reported in The New York Times (February 25, 1971), p. 38.
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)
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Sophocles— Line 277; cf. "Don’t shoot the messenger."
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
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
l. frank baum— The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
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))
Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.
michael marshall smith— Prologue - Yakima
I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
j. michael straczynski— J. Michael Straczynski (1995-11-10). "Re: B5 rips off Trek Again! (T". rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5. (Google Groups). Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
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))
Hard to hold down, nimble, alighting wherever it likes: the mind. Its taming is good. The mind well-tamed brings ease. (Verse 35)
— Translator: F. Max Müller (Quotes)
And now we come to the most lurid Underworld of all cities that of post-war Berlin. Ever since the declaration of peace, Berlin found its outlet in the wildest dissipation imaginable. The German is gross in his immorality, he likes his Halb-Welt or underworld pleasures to be devoid of any Kultur or refinement, he enjoys obscenity in a form which even the Parisian would not tolerate.
— Netley Lucas, Ladies of the Underworld, 1927. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, p.1. ISBN 092291558X.
If America likes it, then eventually it will be gone.
— Yao Changke [1] (Sourced)
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes.
— Verses to his Friend under Affliction.
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
— Book I, 1.
Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life’s chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.
— Kurt Schwitters (1923)Proletkult Manifesto
Yazid is a transgressor, a drunkard, killer of innocent people and an open sinner, we will never give our allegiances to the likes of him.
— Ibn A'tham al-Kufi, Al-Futuh, vol.5, p.18-19
