Quotes of: Like-a-duck Keyword

For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was hard to believe that a man he knew could play it with his own two hands. There were parts of it like birdsong, and parts like rolling thunder and hard r...

Doc

I don’t think I like the idea that you just control me, but you get to do anything you like.” “Ah, but that’s because you don’t understand the power exchange. Note that I used the word exchange. Listen, there are as many different ways to p...

A Dom is Forever

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd n...

The Big Sleep

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz m...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

That night she looked like the most beautiful girl I’d seen outside a sticky nudie magazine. She had a glow about her, like a pink neon shop sign on the outskirts of Orafouraville that says “Rose is For Sale.” Prostitution or a grammatically in...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

[last lines] Lawyer: [reading from Walt's will] And I'd like to leave my 1972 Gran Torino to... [the lawyer pauses and looks up at Ashley, who smiles expectantly] Lawyer: ...my friend... Thao Vang Lor. On the condition that you don't chop-top the roo...

Gran Torino

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

City of Glass

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

The Dispossessed

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Ethan Embry

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

Just because it looks like a leprechaun and talks like a leprechaun, it doesn't mean it can't act like the little fucking demon it is.

Nemesis

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side ..." ( )

Nothing Like the Sun

Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent like a hammer beating the water.

Like A Hammer:Poems 1990 - 1999

A tree has leaves like man has hair. Some men go winter in the summer, and other men, like me, like skiing on skin.


Sleepwalking is restercise

I don’t like walking, I don’t like shoes, and I don’t like roller skating in a wheelchair—too many wheels, and not enough sitting.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Superfluous is just too super. I feel like the word needs something extra, like a cape.

Sleepwalking is restercise

I stare at Hans. Hans is shaped like an industrial-sized refrigerator. His hands are like cinder blocks. He should not be afraid of a little thing like the ocean.

Starstruck

She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.

A Place Like This

I feel like dancing. If I bring an extra wheelchair for you, would you like to join me?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.

Write like no one is reading 2

Searching through Monster.com while on the clock feels like being on Tinder while still married.

Write like no one is reading 2