Liking Quotes

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

America, I appreciate you liking me.

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.