Like Me Quotes - Page 33

• Look not in my eyes, for fear
  They mirror true the sight I see,
  And there you find your face too clear
  And love it and be lost like me.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Eye, Mirrors

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Reality, Men

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• It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Children, Appreciate

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

  Sophia Loren

  Feel Good, Skins, Way

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• If all would lead their lives in love like me,
  Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
  No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
  Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Moving, Sleep

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

  Raymond Chandler

  Taken, Writing, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.278, Vintage

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• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Trust, Notebook, Running

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

  Taylor Swift

  Goodbye, People, Forever

  Song: All You Had To Do Was Stay, Album: 1989

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• Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.

  Rainn Wilson

  Successful, Views, People

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

  Ray Lewis

  May, Want, Respect Me

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

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• That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.

  Jack LaLanne

  Girl, Athlete, School

  "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement" by Claudia Luther, www.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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• We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Differences, Mirrors

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• Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

  Zig Ziglar

  Light, Mind, Bypass

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Dog, Kenya, Pops

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• Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

  Paulette Alden

  Home, Mourning, Rest Of Your Life

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• If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter.
  I don't mind, and you don't matter.

  Dr. Seuss

  Selfish, Mind, Matter

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• There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all Im after is happiness.

  Teri Polo

  Stars, Ideas, People

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• I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

  Al Sharpton

  America, Black, Stories

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• Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Love, Assault, Wanted

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• It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Life, Emotional, Decision

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• Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

  Douglas Leone

  Guy, Dimes, Dozen

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• Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

  Al Jourgensen

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Idiot

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• I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

  Fetty Wap

  Sound, My Own

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• I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.

  Ksenia Solo

  Character, Artist, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ideas, Icons, People

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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