“My shadow said to me, ‘what if I told you that I am your soul.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Careful, pot" Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.” — The Letters Of Gratitude Copy Share Image
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Their [the eggs] physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
...and then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I don't think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How… — Sanjay Leela Bhansali Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
“The differences which exist between every one of our real impressions -- differences which explain why a uniform depiction of life cannot… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Kate stood by that low bed, looking down earnestly on its occupant—that occupant that was now a person, and soon would be—O,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, however, which you may suppose the most… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image