Someone Like Quotes

“Even mosochists need lovers. What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good for someone.”

— R.K. Lilley

“You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.”

— Marie Lu

“But Park's parents loved each other. They kissed each other on the mouth, no matter who was watching. What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back?”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.”

— Marie Lu

“Forgiveness was not easy for someone like me. When it was granted, more often than not, I was just giving someone a second chance to hurt me.”

— Jamie McGuire

“22 What makes someone appetizing to someone like All_BS? Why did he choose to help Meg and not, say, Sassafrants, or the guy who always asks about rat poison? And how can I get him to think I'm one of those people? I go back through his posts, looking for a pattern. He responds more to girls than to guys-particularly to smart girls. He doesn't ever reply to the illiterates,”

— Gayle Forman

“Yeah, well there's also a word for someone like you ... womaniser.”

— Joanne McClean

“I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.”

— Antonio Banderas

“One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.”

— Rob Lowe

“Damn Kennedy. Damn him, damn him. It would serve him right to see me with someone like Lucas. Someone so different, but equally hot. More so, if I started calculating details.”

— Tammara Webber

“I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.”

— Rebel Wilson

“I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.”

— Fortune Feimster

“I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.”

— Lesley Garrett

“I'd hoped being tapped meant they were willing to listen to someone like me. Apparently, what it really meant is that they hoped they could make someone like me listen to them.”

— Diana Peterfreund

“For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough to walk into a room with someone like Larry David and audition.”

— Cheryl Hines

“Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.”

— Dave Eggers

“You have to be away a long time, a long way, to miss someone like that, and me, I'd been farther away than anyone ought to be for too long plus six weeks. I kissed her and squeezed her until she yelled for mercy, and when I got to where I realized she was yelling we were clear back to the terrace, the whole length of the apartment away from the door. I guess I was sort of enthusiastic, but as I said  ...  oh, who can say a thing like that and make any sense?”

— Theodore Sturgeon

“What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.”

— Jack Dorsey

“I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.”

— Jonathan Jackson

“I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.”

— Psy

“You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'”

— Marcia Gay Harden

“I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.”

— John Lasseter

“Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.”

— Carine Roitfeld

“If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.”

— Richelle Mead

“Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.”

— Romola Garai

“Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.”

— Joe Jonas

“If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.”

— Clive Sinclair

“The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.”

— Lesley Manville

“There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.”

— Tyson Fury

“Haven, I could never love someone like you, because there isn't anyone like you", he said. "You're one of a kind.”

— J.M. Darhower

“When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.”

— Daniel Kehlmann

“You broke your own moral code. I figured if someone like you would fight for me, I might actually be worth something.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.”

— Veronica Roth

“I was willing to wait to have someone like you. Someone who has passed every test, has remained constant and true.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“What is it about me that makes me so fuckin' unlovable to someone like Georgie Price? I'm strong. I'm tall. I can change a flat. I can hold my breath for at least two minutes solid. I've got a big dick. What more do girls want? Manly tears? I mean, damn. Throw a brother a bone already.”

— Jessica Clare

“And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.”

— Mahan Esfahani

“I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.”

— Jim Al-Khalili

“What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.”

— Mark Danner

“There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.”

— Mark David Chapman

“There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.”

— Bryce Dessner

“Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.”

— Syleena Johnson

“I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.”

— Sheryl Crow

“I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.”

— Jim Carrey

“The big-name stars ... are always going to be playing what they've played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That's why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.”

— Ben Stiller

“I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?”

— Orlando Bloom

“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost 's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal .”

— Randall Jarrell

“How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?”

— Chris Matthews

“When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo