O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“She has all the right equipment to look sexy, pretty even. She just overdoes everything-like she's a coloring-book women who got scribbled… — Bonnie Shimko Copy Share Image
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.” — Tepilit Ole Saitoti Copy Share Image
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis?… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice… — Abraham Hayward Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria 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
“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my… — Christopher Hitchens 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
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced… — Richard van der Riet Woolley Copy Share Image
I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and… — June Jordan 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 nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a… — Gerhard Richter 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
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his… — Thomas Huxley 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
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different. — Albert Einstein 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 would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image