- Just
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- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
- Okay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the Nova Corps; I just don't like Nova that much! He's okay, you know? I just don't like that helmet!
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
- Common Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like sleeping in a bed.
- Bed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still don't like going to bed alone.
- Nov 07, 2020