“I love violent Shakespeare. It is to me what steak is to some people: the bloodier the better.” — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are… — Olivier Magny Copy Share Image
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in… — Akio Toyoda Copy Share Image
“Though we recognize distinct cultural differences across time and place, the commonalities warrant our attention. To think about how these ancient commonalities… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“She stared down into her coffee, as if she had more to say, but the words had fallen into the mug and… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise,… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created,… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
“The teacher who assesses his students with providing feedback is like the optician to give the people the suitable glasses to see… — Fatima Almoemen Copy Share Image
