L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like a once clever fish that kept slipping the hook, [he'd] finally been caught, pulled at last from the dark, deep waters of his treachery and lies.”
Source: Moments to Spare
“Like a one eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store.”
“Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.”
Source: Open Shutters
“Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.”
“Like a pair of old slippers,
I feel comfort and
warmth as I slip into you.
No, that is too crude.
Like the match to the wick,
I ignite when we touch.
My counterpart and
life's purpose.
Yes, as though I've known you my whole life.
Every scar,
every failure
has become an affirmation
of what should be:
You.
Yes, as though I've loved you my whole life.”
“Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.”
Source: Schools That Learn (updated and revised second edition): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
“Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)
“Like a path frequently traveled becomes clear and well-marked in the forest, so too does the path to your Soul become more clearly marked in your consciousness.”
“Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.”
Source: Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
“Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.”
“Like a pendulum my life swung between fairytales and nightmares.”
Source: Broken Together
“Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.”
“Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Virat Kohli has risen.”
“Like a phoenix rising through the fire, my Robbie, my Tesoro rises forward, and I hope and pray that he can take him out.”
Source: Splinters
“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”
“Like a picture out of focus, I’m starting to think that I don’t even know who I am anymore. And that feeling – like being sucked out into the vacuum of space without a suit – is the most terrifying of all.”
Source: Every Bright and Broken Thing
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“Like a piece of rotten meat which not only stinks right on its own surface but also surrounds itself with a stinking molecular cloud of stink, so, too, each island of the archipelago created and supported a zone of stink around itself. This zone, more extensive than the Archipelago itself, was the intermediate transmission zone between the small zone of each individual island and the Big Zone—the Big Camp Compound—comprising the entire country.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
“Like a pinball, she ricocheted off the solid wall of his chest.”
Source: Stage Fright
“Like a piss-soaked butterfly emerging from a cocoon, I push on over the bridge feeling like I’m establishing my transformation into my true self.”
Source: Untethered
“Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.”
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”
Source: A New England girlhood
“Like a poem passing across our eyes
early morning’s light documents the day.”
“Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.”
Source: Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim
“like a puzzle we
constantly seek to be whole”
Source: Titans
“Like a raindrop making its way from a cloud to a stream to a river and finally becoming one with the ocean. Our souls remain singular and, at the same time, become one with the sea of energy of all that was, is, and ever will be—we’re part of the whole.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.”
“Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.”
Source: The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life
“Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.”
“Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.”
“Like a river winding through a hidden valley, may your life flow with a gentle grace, finding its way through the landscapes of joy and sorrow, guided by a deeper knowing that rests beneath the surface of all things.”
“Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.”
“Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.”
“Like a rollercoaster, my mind had climbed its way to the top—only to witness how far there was to fall. And like a coaster, the second the fear hit, my stomach plummeted with the drop.”
Source: By the Sea
“Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.”
Source: The plays of Philip Massinger: adapted for family reading, and the use of young persons, by the omission of objectionable passages
“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
“Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!”
Source: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
“Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.”
“Like a scared child
singing to himself in the dark,
most people sooth themselves
With the worn-out phrase:
'Life goes on…'
without being able to remember anymore
Why should it go on?
Few are those who dare to ask:
How could life go on under such lifeless conditions?”
Source: أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
“Like a sculptor using a hammer and nail to engrave a mark on my brain.
A type of trauma was embedded.”
Source: Dungeon Defense Vol. 2
“Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Like a serpent, this demon had coiled and nested into those empty and cavernous spaces of his heart. Like a harpy, she had preyed on his absolute aloneness.”
Source: Nevermore
“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.”
Source: Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution
“Like a shadow, your memories follow me around.
Lost in these streets where your footsteps are found.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”
“Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.”
“Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.”
Source: Golden Son