All Quotes

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
‐‐ Nelson DeMille

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
‐‐ Paul Pierce

I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.
‐‐ Mike Bidlo

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
‐‐ Andrew Solomon

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.
‐‐ Rob Thomas

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.
‐‐ Hedi Slimane

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

I like the scene in the first 'Scream' movie where Sidney gets up, and dusk is falling, and she's looking out at the hills of Santa Rosa, there where it was filmed, and that's where you sort of hear her theme being played out. I always liked that moment because, to me, it became more than just a horror movie.
‐‐ Marco Beltrami

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
‐‐ Roky Erickson

I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.
‐‐ James Marsters

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
‐‐ Barbara Hershey

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.
‐‐ Halston Sage

I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.
‐‐ Matt Groening

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
‐‐ Brian Greene

I like the sitcom, as a structure.
‐‐ Dave Foley

I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
‐‐ Hakan Nesser

I like the small clubs.
‐‐ John Lee Hooker

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.
‐‐ Angel Haze

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.
‐‐ Gillian Welch

I like the sound a typewriter makes.
‐‐ Paul Auster

I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.
‐‐ Brian Bell

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.
‐‐ Russell Peters

I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.
‐‐ Stevie Jackson

I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday.
‐‐ Stuart Immonen

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
‐‐ Ian Rush

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.
‐‐ Mike Judge

I like the stories with the historical themes.
‐‐ Sarah Sutton

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'
‐‐ Stewart Udall

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
‐‐ Dan Levitan

I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
‐‐ Babe Paley

I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.
‐‐ Max Charles

I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I'll own that... The Argentines make excellent beef that's grass-fed. They've learned how to age it, and they've gotten good at it.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
‐‐ Zayn Malik

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
‐‐ Minnie Driver

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu