Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a… — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It's such a cool group of people that it [being a part of the DC Universe] feels like, for lack of a… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep… — Bob Lutz 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
“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You have so much going on. It comes off like a..." "Static?" I suggested. "Exactly!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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 aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag 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
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
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
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
[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
Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I… — Kenneth J.W. Craik Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can… — Martin Guevara Urbina 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
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate… — James Alison Copy Share Image
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