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Quotes About Resemblance

Stacy Keach was marvelous. He looked more like my father than anyone who had ever played him before.
~ Jack Hemingway
When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.
~ Paul Kaye
You know how a dog and his owner start to look alike after a while? Well, that's like me and Billy.
~ Dusty Hill
Beowulf's Bane, an exotic glowing fungus that ate the flesh of elves, bore an uncanny resemblance to those of necrotizing fasciitis.
~ Peter Watts
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
~ Philip Guedalla
Je dis : et ton père, tu crois qu'il est le genre à appeler ? Il me dévisage à nouveau longuement. Je suis à nouveau pétrifié par sa ressemblance. Il dit : ça, c'est vous qui savez. Je suis sûr que vous le connaissez beaucoup mieux que moi.
~ Philippe Besson
When we look to cast somebody who hasn't had any acting experience before, it's really essential we find somebody who at some level can just be themselves and who shares a lot in common with the character.
~ Anna Boden
I look like Scooby-Doo in a beard.
~ Rocky Wirtz
I look like my mother but behave like my father.
~ Arjun Kapoor
Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Lo que decimos pocas veces se parece a nosotros.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Todos nos parecemos a la imagen que tienen de nosotros.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
~ Rudyard Kipling
People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
~ Carine Roitfeld
People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.
~ Amy Acker
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
~ Alan Alda
I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.
~ Lena Dunham
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Tous mes adieux sont faits. Tant de départs m'ont lentement formé dès mon enfance. Mais je reviens encor, je recommence, ce franc retour libère mon regard. Ce qui me reste, c'est de le remplir, et ma joie toujours impénitente d'avoir aimé des choses ressemblantes à ces absences qui nous font agir.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And this stillness of life did not the least resemble a peace.
~ Joseph Conrad
outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied
~ Joseph Conrad
He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified.
~ Joseph Conrad
But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.
~ Walter Scott