Resembles Quotes
181 quotes by 156 authors
-
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and…
— Michael Polanyi
-
I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
— Gabourey Sidibe
-
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
— Franz Schubert
-
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have…
— Honore de Balzac
-
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being…
— I. Bernard Cohen
-
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
— Michael Cunningham
-
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system…
— David Levering Lewis
-
Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.
— Carl Linnaeus
-
Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.
— Sharon Salzberg
-
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
— Aldous Huxley
-
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
— Samuel Johnson
-
I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my…
— Edvard Munch
-
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found…
— Henri Matisse
-
Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our…
— Susan Sontag
-
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative…
— Wendell Phillips
-
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a'Â Â une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est,…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
-
An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.
— Bill Vaughan
-
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it…
— Oliver Goldsmith
-
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
— Khalil Gibran
-
I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or…
— William Gibson
Who Wrote These Resembles Quotes
156 authors contributed a total of 181 Resembles Quotes, led by these top contributors: