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“It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!”

Want Made Motivational Guy Basketball Okay Defense Shirts Get Back Scream

Author:Oscar Robertson

“It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.”

Years Purpose Ocean Standing Wake Up Edges Waking Towers Obscure Flip Eighteen Lighthouse

Author:Laini Taylor

“It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.”

Want Enough Powerful Technology What You Want

Author:Charles Yu

Source: Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

“It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.”

Quitting Boxers I Quit

Author:Olivier Martinez

“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”

People Loses Quiet Temper Vengeance Quiet People

Author:Agatha Christie

Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels

“It's like America has a dog that's always shitting inside the house, and we solved the problem by getting a brown rug.”

Problem America House Dog Brown

Author:Jon Stewart

“It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.”

Play Music Murder Jazz Musical Commit

Author:Duke Ellington

“It's like an Alcatraz around my neck”

Silly Dumb Necks Alcatraz

Author:Thomas Menino

“It's like an angel crying on your tongue.”

Cry Angel Drinking Tongue Alcohol

Author:Bruno Heller

“It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.”

Years Different Actors Hot Athlete Strings Categories Fades Nothingness

Author:Ed Asner

“It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.”

Thinking I Can Wish Difficult Party Emotional Needed Mad Boring Awkward Wish You Your Favorite Dance Party

Author:Sark

“It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.”

People Thinking Want Giving Trying Difficult Struggle Sick Right Thing Inner Struggle

Author:Julian Casablancas

“It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.”

Stills Important Whole Jobs Stars Records One Thing Capacity Method

Author:Macy Gray

“It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.”

Matter Baseball Breathing Compare Apples Orange Apples And Oranges

Author:Red Barber

“It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.”

Needs Company Alive Honest Athlete Competitors Great Company

Author:Craig R. Barrett

“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.”

Ends Wanted Girl Three Wish Sound My Own Steps Fantasy Week Scene Bed England Careful Hills Therapy Be Careful Aversion Careful What You Wish For

Author:Steve Coogan

“It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.”

Ifs Able Wall Banging

Author:Cassandra Clare

“It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.”

Moving House Stuff Wife Week My Friends Moved Boxes My Wife Hey Packs Truck Haul Hey You Driveway U Haul

Author:Bill Engvall

“It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.”

Believe Looks Littles Kids Little Kid Terrific Underpants

Author:Tina Fey

“It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.”

Born Wonder Cry Color Baby Months Calm Smell Noise Isolation Protest Relative Gravity Floating Sensory Newborn Overload

Author:Chris Hadfield

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“It's like being a stand-up comedian is what leads to being a talk-show host. That life is not cut out for a woman, being on the road at these disgusting hotels. What girls want to do that? Gross guys want to do that. I think that the dearth in female comics is just the nature of the business, but there certainly isn't a dearth anymore, so I think it's just silly.”

Thinking Want Shows Life Is Guy Girl Cutting Female Silly Comedian Hotel Host Disgusting Gross Talk Shows Stand Up Comedian

Author:Chelsea Handler

“It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session”

Training Parks Theme Session Theme Parks

Author:Tom Daley

“It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.”

Matter Kids Sitting Tables Thanksgiving Elbows Nice Thanksgiving

Author:John Hughes

“It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.”

Littles Light Joy Evil Red Cameras Peculiar Monstrous Bleeding Red Lights

Author:Jack Gould

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

Love Discovering Being In Love Your Best Friend

Author:Elizabeth Wein

Source: Code Name Verity

“It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz.”

Knows Land Middle Fame Wake Up Finding Yourself Tornadoes

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.”

Mind Kind Hands Half Position Industry Independent Following Cult Rockers

Author:Ben Folds

“It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.”

Turns Waiting Knowing Doors Finals Handle Jail Breakfast Not Knowing Death Row Reprieve

Author:Howard Wilkinson

“It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.”

Littles Spirit Felt Filled Leaving Passing Passings Mediums Temples Possessed Replaced Psychics Hollow Little Time Passing Through

Author:John Lennon

“It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.”

People Film Dies Army

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.”

Way Ideas Enjoy Metaphor No Idea Boxing Grandchildren Glaciers

Author:Stephen Colbert

“It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.”

Men Might Bed Eating Features Kicks Brad Crackers

Author:Emily Giffin

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.”

Persons Literature Particular Conversation Breathing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“It's like carrying a bowling ball! Almost done.”

Done Balls Pregnancy Bowling Almost Done

Author:Jessica Simpson

“It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'”

Years Firsts Beautiful Winning Loss Tired Sorry Oscars Chasing Beautiful Women I'm Tired

Author:Paul Newman

“It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.”

Giving Firsts Church Lord Honor Barack Savior Our Lord

Author:Jamie Foxx

“It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.”

Looks Behinds Steps Climbing Staircases

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.”

Ifs Knows World Done Space Wonderful Mum Coming Back Womb

Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“It's like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one.”

Kind Different Crazy Yoga Different Kinds Surfer

Author:Diamond Dallas Page

“It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.”

Way Want I Can Play Stories Action Wanted Games Skills Creating Driven Why Not Artificial I Want You Loops

Author:David Cage

“It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.”

Sarcastic Turkeys Cuddling

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“It's like deja-vu, all over again.”

Funny Baseball Over It Confusing Yankees New York Yankees Isms Funny Baseball Great Baseball Deja Vu Yankees Baseball Greatest Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Jobs Lasts Three Half Balance Doctors Patient Administration Romney Half A Year Over 50

Author:Jim Talent

“It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.”

Kind Said Two Good And Bad Dukes

Author:Ray Charles

“It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?”

Thousand Bird Eight

Author:Katherine Rundell

Source: Rooftoppers

“It's like every day is the worst day of your life. And you're trapped and you're scared and you have to portray those emotions in every take and really take yourself to those places. (about her role as an abused wife in ENOUGH.”

Enough Emotion Roles Wife Worst Scared Trapped Worst Day

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's kind of great for me 'cause that's all I really want to be doing still at this point, like just making records and getting to work with, like, artists that I think are exciting.”

Thinking Want Years Kind Stills Artist Causes Records Five Exciting Five Years Lease

Author:Mark Ronson

“It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.”

Stills Hate Hollywood Obsession Obsessed Hollywood Movies American Movie

Author:Roland Emmerich

“It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.”

Ifs Humans Looks Kind Problem Faces Moving Levels Deals Diversity Sitting Brotherhood Veils Viewpoints Unity In Diversity

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.”

Seems Mets Affair Dinner Drivers Charming Only Time Minnie

Author:Mick Jagger

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