“I'm feeling like a butterfly trapped inside a plane. Maybe there's something going on, I'm not insane...”— Caroline Polachek, open.spotify.com
“Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“I love writing songs because I love preserving memories, like putting a picture frame around a feeling you once had.”— Taylor Swift, elle.com
“To catch sight of the invisible is to sight the relations that buoy us up so that we might bob atop the surface of the world, like figures in a relief.”— Andrew Mitchell, amazon.com
“It’s like having a nuclear arsenal. You don’t want to use it, but if the other side knows you got it, they tend to come to the table sooner.”— Steven Zaillian, Jack Stone, John Turturro, imdb.com
“Calling that thing a house is like calling the Vatican a church.”— Daniel Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com
“I'm like walking heroin, very habit forming. It never ends well.”— Tom Kapinos, Lucifer Morningstar, Tom Ellis, imdb.com
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.”— Horace Mann, sites.google.com
“I am like the foam that races over the beach or the moonlight that falls arrow-like here on a tin can, here on a spike of the mailed sea holly, or a bone or a half-eaten boat.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com