Quotes About Resemblance

Boys are very like men to be sure.

Et maintenant / Tu me ressembles tu me ressembles malheureusement

Sans aucun doute, il y a ressemblance entre l'amitié et l'amour. Nous dirons même de l'amour qu'il est la folie de l'amitié. Sénèque

I would love to play the President of the United States. I have been told we resemble each other, and it would be a challenge I would be up for. Obama is from the south side of Chitown, and so am I... I'm just saying, but be on the lookout.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I don't think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How much like Charlie Chaplin did Robert Downey Jr. look in 'Chaplin?' Did Meryl Steep actually resemble Nora Ephron in 'Heartburn?'

Except for the sign on the front lawn, there wasn't much difference between this house and his. World War II bungalows with clapboard siding. Two bedrooms, one bath. A small lawn that ran out to the street. A peaked roof with dark asphalt shingles. Both ordinary, in all ways. One vacant. One empty.

there's a common trick nature plays on its would-be investigators: resemblance, the human urge to map the unknown onto the already known, can be a snare. Just because something looks like something else doesn't mean that the backstory for both must be the same. Rocks scattered across the sky may appear to be a rubble field left behind by an explosion…but unless you stop to think how else you might get there, you rely on assumptions not in evidence.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous; for the more ancient any history pretends to be, the more it has the resemblance of a fable.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

Me and Wiley have got a lot in common. And not just the fact that we're both a bit nuts.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Sanctification includes a growing resemblance to the likeness of christ

Their sense of likeness astonished them. It resembled magic. They felt themselves held in a spellbound condition which they feared to injure. Although she could not pin down any overt point of resemblance, Harriet at times imagined he was the person most like her in the world, her mirror image.

Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She

He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean.

six feet tall, with a passing resemblance

I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

I found myself facing a man and a woman who looked so much alike, they could only be twins, or two people who had been married for a very long time. They both had pear-shaped bodies with short, thick legs and grumpy-looking arms, and it looked like they had both tried on heads that were too small for them, and were about to ask the head clerk for a larger size.

It was a disturbing parallel.

Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.