Resemblance Quotes

131 Resemblance quotes by 114 unique authors

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
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need… — Daniel Dennett
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and… — Theodor Adorno
There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the… — Chris Isaak
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a… — Karl Philipp Moritz
I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the… — Jon Stewart
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog… — Ambrose Bierce
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -… — Vincent Van Gogh
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the… — Barrows Dunham
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. — E. W. Howe
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't… — Antony Sher

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