It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember the days when you spoke to one person from one outlet and that was the conversation. But… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“... there’s a common trick nature plays on its would-be investigators: resemblance, the human urge to map the unknown onto the already… — Thomas Levenson Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“Next to me was Jacob, this riddle Laurie and I had made. His size, his resemblance to me, the likelihood that he… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them.… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“(...) one man will look another in the face, with the impudent assurance that he will never see anything but a miserable… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't understand all these breasts right now, and they don't look like breasts. They look like someone's taken a grapefruit half… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
What's so great about my business is that every day is different than the day prior. Today, the industry bears little resemblance… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image