Resemblance Quotes

131 quotes by 114 authors

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to… — Minna Antrim
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that… — Robert Anton Wilson
The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so. — Faith Popcorn
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes… — Terry Pratchett
My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know, — Mindy McCready
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs.… — Robert Moss
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;… — Samuel Johnson
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search… — John Denham
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading… — Rick Strassman
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences,… — Noam Chomsky
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have… — Maxine Hong Kingston
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard… — Ambrose Bierce
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the… — Lewis Thomas
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Sydney J. Harris
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. — Francoise Sagan
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. — Edna Ferber
A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat… — Sam Cooke

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