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Quotes About Parallels

They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them that they're just dedicated and loyal.
~ Okieriete Onaodowan
When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It's community management. It's making sure the marketplace is in balance - the right amount of buyers and sellers.
~ Jeff Jordan
My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
~ Martine Syms
I like the look of all-rounder Ben Stokes. I usually have no interest in comparing new players with myself, but there are some interesting parallels here.
~ Andrew Flintoff
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.
~ Jason Blum
Whetstone of Witte introduced the symbol "_" because "noe 2 thynges can be more equalle than a pair of paralleles.
~ Peter L. Bernstein
From 1781, by which time Goethe had been in Weimer for six years, he confided to Charlotte that he no longer felt able to address her as "Sie," and must use the more intimate "du." This brought about a sea change. As one critic put it, Goethe's letters now became "prose poems of happy love with few parallels in any literature.
~ Peter Watson
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.
~ Greg Graffin
It's becoming very much like 1979 again.
~ Richard Wright
When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical.
~ David Olusoga
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
~ Diane Watson
'The Princess and the Warrior' is looking at the same things as 'Lola' - just from a different angle.
~ Franka Potente
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
~ Kevin Macdonald
If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
~ George Eliot
History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
~ Mark Twain
Among the Red Indians of America there had evidently been something entirely analogous to the Babylonian custom of wearing the horns; for, in the "buffalo dance" there, each of the dancers had his head arrayed with buffalo's horns; and it is worthy especial remark, that the "Satyric dance," or dance of the Satyrs in Greece, seems to have been the counterpart of this Red Indian solemnity;
~ Alexander Hislop
You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.
~ John Kani
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
~ Nancy Kress
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
~ Aaron Stanford
People will always make comparisons.
~ Don DeLillo