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Quotes About Liking

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
~ Elaine Sciolino
It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show.
~ Ken Marino
She's a nice girl. Not my type." "You don't like them nice?" He had another cigarette going. The smoke was being fanned away from his face by his hand. "I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin." "They take you to the cleaners," Randall said indifferently.
~ Raymond Chandler
I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
~ Dolly Parton
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.
~ Bob Hawke
A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
~ David Benioff
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
~ Cecil Taylor
Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.
~ Irving Berlin
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
~ Charlie Parker
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
~ Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
~ John Ruskin
My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.
~ Nicky Hilton
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
~ Winston Churchill
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
~ Mark Twain
Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.
~ Robert Moses
I never met a man that I didn't like.
~ Will Rogers
I never mewt a man I didn't like.
~ Will Rogers
Carlton, Sydney (1949-), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated with understanding had a setback in 1998 when Carlton, a married man from Bradford, was sentenced to a year in prison for having intercourse with a Staffordshire bull terrier, named Badger. His defence was that Badger had made the first move. 'I can't help it if the dog took a liking to me,' he told the court. This was not accepted.
~ William Donaldson
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
~ William Hazlitt
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
~ David Bowie
We have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief.
~ David Byrne