Likes Quotes (page 432)

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• life
• imagination
• without you

Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you. Haruki Murakami

• learning
• humorous
• end

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. Mark Twain

• lies
• value
• beautiful

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten. Milan Kundera

• friend
• girls
• manly

I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close. Cornelia Funke

• dead
• small
• wishes

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. Samuel Beckett

• change
• enough
• typing

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another. Terry Prachett

• she
• white
• ghost

I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco - long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness. I stumbled around a few blocks. Weird bums (Mission and Third) asked me for dimes in the dawn. Jack Kerouac

• father
• new
• look

My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers. Janet Evanovich

• manly
• troubling
• troubles

The average man don't like trouble and danger. Mark Twain

• angry
• moon
• candy

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy E. E. Cummings

• work
• friend
• children

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. C. S. Lewis

• overly
• pet
• back

It's huge ears drooped over its face, and it brushed them back with one paw, then rose on its hind feet. The Pillsbury Doughboy might have something like this as his pet. Dean Koontz

• thinking
• wellness
• you

Why don't I like you?"Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not. Alan Rickman

• book
• night
• road

So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, hadgaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missingincidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as ifplaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night. Michael Ondaatje

• far
• clothings
• clothing

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. Terry Prachett