Resemblance Quotes

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 enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

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 hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

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 bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

We understand through resemblance.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.