Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy… — Mike Fisher Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most… — John Drinkwater 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
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image