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“It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.”

Want Running Jobs Young Grows Growing Up Running Away Circus

Author:Katie McGrath

“It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.”

Persons Sleep Watches Trouble Fake People Samson

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.”

Ifs Believe Two Facts Wish Bits Five Four Theory Evolution Historical Conqueror Historical Facts William The Conqueror

Author:David Attenborough

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

Way Should Fever Scarlet Vaccinations

Author:Leo Tolstoy

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!”

Looks Said Toms Cruise

Author:Jeremy London

“It's like scrying into that weird space. There's so much coming out of him, it shouldn't be possible. Do you remember that woman who came in who was pregnant with quadruplets? It was like that, but worse." "He's pregnant?" Blue asked.”

Remember Space Blue Coming Out Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

Source: The Raven Boys

“It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.”

“It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to be able to hang out in those places and go to those bookstores and those comic book stores and those music stores, and like have that, from the books onto the screen, is so cool and I'm glad to have been part of that.”

Has Beens Book Able Stores Screens Glad Comic Hanging Out Comic Book Bookstores Toronto

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.”

Light Faces Three Half Week Boxing Your Face Electric Bulbs Light Bulb Busted Electric Light

Author:James J. Braddock

“It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.”

Whole Felt Vision Happened Heard Things Happen Like Something

Author:Van Morrison

“It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.”

Sometimes Pressure Lays

Author:Neko Case

“It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.”

People Inspirational Needs Soul Names Understanding Music Musician Music Is Singer Songwriters Identifying Music Soul Soulless

Author:Mark Lanegan

“It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.”

Firsts Earth Standing Edges Cliffs Making Up Standing On The Edge

Author:Peter Carey

“It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else”

People Men Should Body Age Middle Middle Ages Women's Bodies

Author:Inga Muscio

Source: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

“It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.”

Knows Mean Use Machines

Author:Miles Davis

“It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.”

Years Whole Eye Breaths Swimming Kicking Underwater Whole Year

Author:Laura Moriarty

“It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.”

Stories News Program Horrible Tabloids

Author:Scott Putesky

“It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.”

Sound Like You Mouths Corny Andrew Like Yourself

Author:Michael Aspel

“It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?”

Want Notes Aviation Opera Want U Airline

Author:Gordon Bethune

“It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.”

Needs Expression Knives Spoons

Author:Alanis Morissette

“It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.”

Ifs Men World Ideas Sides Laughing Path Plans Television Expression Wind Lucky Headings

Author:Vince Gilligan

“It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.”

Feels Trying Feelings Accepting Aspect Perfection Who You Are Acknowledge Be You Discomfort

Author:Jeff Bridges

“It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.”

War Stars Player Scene Awful Merging Kramer

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.”

Littles Book Today Fiction Anecdotes

Author:Scott McClanahan

“It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.”

People Wells Ideas Different Beautiful Band Conversation Endless Hopefully Topics Lenses

Author:Ville Valo

“It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.”

Past

Author:Esi Edugyan

Source: Half-Blood Blues: A Novel

“It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.”

Animal Kingdoms Hockey Nhl Animal Kingdom

Author:Brett Hull

“It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.”

Kind Ocean Baskets Groove

Author:Tristan Thompson

“It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.”

Sitting China Eggs Brooding Hens

Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu

“It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.”

Littles Self Used Realizing Proud Picks Bottom Silly Innocent Toys Dolls Cupboards Old Self

Author:John Fowles

Source: The Collector

“It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.”

Yeah Fairy Drag Karate

Author:Gerard Way

“It's like the Fouth of July in my underpants.”

July Underpants

Author:Adam Carolla

“It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.”

School Class Roles Saws Students Drama High School Productions Gifted Steppenwolf Drama Class

Author:Roger Ebert

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.”

Humans Has Beens Race Misery Human Race

Author:Tom Perrotta

“It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Different Real Differences Records Normal Window Opposites Albums Stores Real Life Different Ways Thrown Categories Ipods Just Saying Record Stores Playlists

Author:DJ Spooky

“It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."”

Giving Littles Modern Give Me Presses Boxes Bars Rats Modern Life Psychologist Skinner

Author:Jess Lair

“It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.”

Surfing Mafia Surf Surfer

Author:Kelly Slater

“It's like the mod thing is happening again.”

Happenings Happening Again Mods

Author:Pete Townshend

“It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.”

Certain Magic Strange Huge Discovery Red Accidents Unexpected Drs Coats Purple Mold Penicillin Something Unexpected

Author:Carly Simon

“It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.”

Problem Work More Money

Author:The Notorious B.I.G.

“It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.”

Knows Wisdom Motivational Knowledge Knowledge Wisdom Shoreline

Author:Stephen Covey

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.”

I Can Voice Careers Profound Accomplishment

Author:Lake Bell

“It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.”

Ifs Thinking Stupid Republican Neighborhood

Author:Alan Keyes

“It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.”

Dying Eating Sitting Jungle Pandas

Author:Karl Pilkington

“It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.”

Way Feels I Can Body Might Memories Blood Piano Flash Furious Blood Transfusion

Author:Gayle Forman

Source: If I Stay

“It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.”

Belief Stupid Therapy Buying Psychiatrist

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.”

People Knows Wells Mean Book Self Done Stories Problem Might Example Lucky Letters Marketing Folks Be Good Honestly Selling Winner Publishing Editing Publicity Lottery Layout Queries

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?”

Men Riddle Unmarried Sphinx

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”

Scare Smarter

Author:Katherine Paterson

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

“It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What were you doing? Was it your fault? It doesn't matter anymore. You open the window, but only the very top layer of the smell goes away. The rest remains around you. It's the walls. You leave the room, but it's on your clothes. You change your clothes, but it's in your hair. It's on the thin skin on the tops of your hand. And in the morning, it's still there.”

Made Stills Matter Hands Rooms Morning Hair Wall Clothes Window Skins Remains Faults Smell Enjoyed Layers Burned Toasts

Author:Elliot Perlman

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