If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because… — Matt Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with… — Susan Blackmore 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
Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances… — G. M. Trevelyan 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
Learning what it is to be among other human beings includes learning that they can be different from us as well as… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
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
People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Let's see... we'll put it in baseball analogies for you since you seem to be so keen on them. Almost third base… — K.Bromberg Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco 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
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom 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
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith 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
perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a “life-is-like-this” on the… — Chila Woychik 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
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach… — Elon Musk 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
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
![“The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it's to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f3/barack-obama-17_analogies_the-quibble-i-have-with-president-barack_927966.jpg)
![“[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.” quote by Danny Hillis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bee/danny-hillis-33289_analogies_language-is-really-a-pretty-amazing-inve_753389.jpg)
