“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
We all go through transitions, whether it's divorce, or any number of things, and the way we talk right now is very… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
If your insides are not well looked-after, then your outsides are going to suffer. It's like a glass that's not cleaned from… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Ants are a terrific analogy for the route to success. They will go over, under, around, or through whatever gets in their… — Honoree Corder Copy Share Image
“There is, then, an analogy–and perhaps more than mere analogy–between central vision and conscious, one-at-a-time thinking, and between peripheral vision and the… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“What the radical Enlightenment excluded as implausible based on the principle of analogy, much of today’s world can accept on the same… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
“I realised something else tonight. Something about pancakes.’ ‘What about them?’ ‘We both got so obsessed about that first pancake being thrown… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“To invoke an analogy, consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I discovered another analogy in the legacy of Prophet Muhammad that immediately clicked with me: that the angels put down their wings… — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise,… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
“To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by… — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this… — Rob McKenna Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Seeing is the property of our eyes. But we also use this word in other senses, when we apply the power of… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
“(An) Analogy has been drawn between the metaphysical experience of prayer and an ordinary human friendship. This may progress from initial civility,… — Adrian House Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image