Quotes About Resemblance

Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male model." "That's just my cousin Ian," Amy explained. "Not much of a family resemblance," Evan noted sourly. "He's like a twenty-fifth cousin, ten times removed." Evan was not satisfied.

What all of us hesitate to admit is that we tend to be more helpful to people who are like us.

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.

I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

you may seek out a partner who psychologically resembles your mother and found that you have walked right back into a difficult relationship. Perhapse you chose to be close to someone who turns out to be as volatile as your mother and who inflicts discomfort all too familiar to you. Or perhaps gradually, over time, your partner or close friend becomes like your mother; that may be because you unconsciously behave in ways that encourage others to treat you as your mother did.

Thus the ordinary, uncontrolled chattering we call "prose" changes its nature, like coal becoming incandescent. Poetry resembles music.

They murder so that whatever to them seems living, shall resemble themselves.

And my father? Brian's grin flashed. I like thinking that's where I got the fifty.I told him he's better off sticking with the horses. Keeley's brow rose. And his response to that? Isn't something I can repeat in polite company.

If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word "coincidence" exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

She got up and crossed to the window. Like father like daughter, he thought: window freaks, both of them.

He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father?

the only sign that Katharine gave of abstraction was to forget to help the pudding. She looked so like her mother, as she sat there oblivious of the tapioca

So accurately does history repeat itself.

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.

Lei assomiglia in modo eccezionale a sua madre. Non ho mai avuto il piacere di conoscerla di persona, ma Rodrig Ivanovi? mi ha gentilmente promesso di mostrarmela in fotografia».

All five of them were short and bowlegged, making them look like a chorus line of wishbones.

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. " "How would you know?

They were alike, Dex realized.

Schöner's maps closely resembled Behaim's, and Pigafetta could easily have mistaken one for the other

Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that.

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.