Likable Or Likeable Quotes & Sayings

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. — Damien Chazelle

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. — Will Smith

Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. — Bernard Bolzano

The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. — John Green

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it. — Terry Gilliam

You show them you have in you something that is really profitable, and then there will be no limits to the recognition of your ability, — Joseph Conrad

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook. — Ellen Gilchrist

I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition. — Pantha Du Prince

The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed. — Martin Filler

I expected palm trees and red carpets, said Iko, brow drawn in a show of severe disappointment. — Marissa Meyer

Untold stories have the power to shatter worlds made of glass. — Vanshika Prusty

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic. — David Liss

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground. — John Barrasso

Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them. — Robert Wilson Lynd

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse — George Vaillant