“Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“ Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a… — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
“As ovelhas tresmalhadas se não andam no caminho de Deus, o diabo leva.” — Anonymous 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
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped… — Lily King Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
“I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ” — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
“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
“I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality… — Peter Watts 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
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
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
“Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she… — Mia James 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
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image