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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

I don't like talking to celebrities.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.