Resembling Quotes

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To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning. — Oliver Herford
Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn. — Peter S. Beagle
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take… — Barbara Sher
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark… — Gerald M. Loeb
The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's… — Unknown Author
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,… — Hal Porter
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but… — Charles Lamb
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. — William Shakespeare
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,… — Plato
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling… — George F. Kennan
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might… — Ian MacKaye
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. — Rudyard Kipling
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. — Vladimir Nabokov
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that… — Lewis Thomas
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island… — Martin Filler
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone â€˜identifiedâ€™ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. — Mark Twain

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