Quotes of: Resemblance Keyword

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A. J. Jacobs

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Thomas Hood

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

John Thorn

Mr. Morris's poem is ushered into the world with a very florid birthday speech from the pen of the author of the too famous ,—a circumstance, we apprehend, in no small degree prejudicial to its success. But we hasten to assure all persons whom the ...

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Any resemblance to real events, actual persons, or reality in general is entirely coincidental.

Cube Rube

The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach… cockroach… cockroach…

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.

Steve Maraboli

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Leonardo da Vinci

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Mindy McCready

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Samuel Butler

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Francois Mauriac

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Barbara Kingsolver

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Edmund White

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

How to Attract the Wombat

Your presence resembles a dirty martini, she only drinks it when she’s thirsty.

Lady on a Wire

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.

The Poe Consequence

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

How to Marry a Marquis

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld