Ban Ki-moon

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

South Korean Leader

Ronny Cox

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

American Actor

Pete Holmes

Sometimes I liken the comedian's lifestyle a little bit to a firefighter's in the sense that there's a lot of waiting and a lot of nothingness. And then there are moments of urgent firefighting.

American Comedian

Julian Baggini

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

British Author

James Wolk

I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

Sean Lock

I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good paint job, and that's the same as everything in life.

English Comedian

Martin Shkreli

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

Albanian Businessman

Jessica Jung

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

American Musician

Bill Skarsgard

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

Swedish Actor

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Roman Statesman

Use 'liken' when emphasizing similarities, even if things aren't exactly the same.

Similarity Highlight

'Liken' is often used metaphorically to make a comparison more vivid or understandable.

Metaphoric Use

Writers 'liken' things to paint a unique, creative picture in the reader's mind.

Creative Descriptions

 they're edible they're they're tasty according to some people i actually have not tried them yet okay so do you have a cicada recipe are you gonna are you gonna do like eat them raw are you gonna like you got stir-fry planned or what's your stir fry is it does sound like a good idea i mean a lot of people have liken them to

How Cicadas Become...

 And I'm going to take you through each in turn. The first type of skill required to master esports is mechanical skill, sometimes referred to as micro. Mechanical skill governs activating and aiming in-game abilities with pixel-perfect accuracy. And I'd most liken mechanical skill to playing an instrument like piano.

How video game skills...

 You can liken it to a whole series of steak knives in a fish's mouth. The top teeth are the cutters. They are highly serrated, and they are basically the teeth that saw into the flesh of their prey. The bottom teeth are very different. They're much more narrow but equally as serrated.

How a Great White Shark...

 You work under master tattooers, learning everything that you need to know about how to tattoo before you even ever do a tattoo. The day I came to create my first tattoo was the most terrifying day of my life. And the only thing I could liken it to is like learning to drive.

The Restorative Power of...

 by posing the most difficult questions they could muster. But Juana successfully answered every challenge, from complicated equations to philosophical queries. Observers would later liken the scene to “a royal galleon fending off a few canoes.”

History's "worst" nun -...

 I think that there's a better way to solve our urban water crisis and I think that's to open up four new local sources of water that I liken to faucets. If we can make smart investments in these new sources of water in the coming years,

4 ways we can avoid a...

 forest on the surfaces of single leaves so here you have a sprouting plant on a leaf surface in a rain forest and all kinds of other plants there and you can find things like this is a liver wart and this is believe it now I liken it's

Army Ants, Orchids and...

 that I liken to three systems in the human body. And what we have here is the world's highways and railways oil and gas pipelines, electricity grids internet cables. All of this infrastructure that has massively, exponentially

Mapping the Future of...

 while other suffragists are prepared to stand back during the war she is prepared in us to go ahead and even liken wilson and his refusal to support the vote for women she will liken that

Black Women and the...

 oh um i always liken it to this moment of tranquility and sort of um a rare moment that you savor and that that sense of exposure and to to look out of over that place and then finding