- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across its oceanic blond grass, horses and the black silhouettes of camels move languidly, as if they are the only inhabitants. Ancient Turkic nomads left enigmatic petroglyphs carved into boulders 2,000 years ago.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!
- Differing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
- Faults
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
- Lipstick
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- Nov 07, 2020