Analogy Quote by Joel Edgerton Download Open image “I'm really great at making terrible analogies.” — Joel Edgerton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analogy Great Making Really Terrible
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a “life-is-like-this” on the page. I… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For example, the… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
“We lack the analogies’ was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering Area X.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie at large.… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“ Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one… — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
“As ovelhas tresmalhadas se não andam no caminho de Deus, o diabo leva.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her… — Lily King Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
