Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
I like to challenge myself. I like to learn – so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
It’s just like, damn – I’m competing with myself.
The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson’s and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
Sometimes I like to go out; sometimes I like to chill and do nothing.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!’
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
I try to tell all the – not even the kids, even people older than me – to just be themselves. Don’t wear what I wear ’cause I wear it; wear what you like.
I like the term ‘misunderstood.’ But I am a bit of a bad boy.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.
I am a human being, with feelings and emotions and scars and flaws, just like anyone else.
Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can’t I smoke?
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss – you can’t do it alone.
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.
If you want street fight, let’s go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
