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Quotes About Similarity

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I'm drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.
~ Laura Marling
You and I, on the other hand, are the perfect size for each other. As we're very nearly the same height, we're just like a pair of bookends.
~ Jan Karon
The astounding thing about Paula is that she looks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she sounds like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she thinks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles and yet she is so different from Tess of the D´Urbervilles. I expect she comes from a different part of Dorset.
~ Jane Gardam
He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.
~ Jane Hamilton
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
~ Janette Rallison
Homer, maybe you can tell me why I am fatally attracted to women who are no more than mirrors of myself.
~ E.L. Doctorow
The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be like everyone else and then bragged about how they were different. All their differences put into a pot and boiled down wouldn't spice baby food. By trying to brag about how different they were, they just really showed how alike they were, because all their differences were alike.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
The drawing-room door opened, and two high-stocked and ample-coated young men came in—two Jim Ralstons, so to speak. Delia had never before noticed how much her husband and his cousin Joe were alike: it made her feel how justified she was in always thinking of the Ralstons collectively.
~ Edith Wharton
much of a muchness.
~ Edmund Morris
We expected to find aliens who were different from us, really different. We didn't expect to find aliens who are very similar with some striking differences. It has us off balance'.
~ Edward James
Anne came downstairs wearing a white cotton dress almost indistinguishable from the white cotton nightgown she had taken off.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
~ Albert Einstein
Indeed, for all their traditional antagonisms and obvious differences, the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.
~ Albert Murray
American culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite …the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.
~ Albert Murray
They say, as the gardener, so the garden.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
I tilt my head back and carefully toss my hair over my right shoulder in the way I have seen my younger sister do. I realize I know one more thing about her than I did before - what it feels like to do this and why you would. It's like your own little thunderclap.
~ Alexander Chee
We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.
~ Alfred Austin
You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.
~ Mike Lowry
In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours.
~ Adam Curtis
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
~ Edward Norton
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
~ Sophia Bush
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
~ Christopher Marlowe
I would say Mick Jagger plus Mr. Furley equals Howard Wolowitz.
~ Simon Helberg
It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.
~ Alexandra Fuller