Quotes About Dissimilarity

One counsel's questioning brings out testimony as to the resemblances, the defence brings evidence to show dissimilarity.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!

although metaphor undoubtedly deals in likenesses, similarity, it also deals in unlikeness and dissimilarity.

He's the polar opposite of an auction.

Husband and wife had little in common

Their [the eggs] physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

He was interested in the sudden friendship between two women so apparently dissimilar as Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish. They were always in each other's company, with Lucy a slighted third. Miss Lavish he believed he understood, but Miss Bartlett might reveal unknown depths of strangeness, though not, perhaps, of meaning.

There is nothing similar between the pharmaceutical and textile business.

If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch

There's a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There's a difference.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

A privilege to live in conflict with one's times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others. This state of acute dissimilarity, however indigent or sterile it appears, nonetheless possesses a philosophical status which one would be at a loss to seek in cogitations attuned to events.

the criterion of dissimilarity. It states that if a tradition about Jesus is dissimilar to what the early Christians would have wanted to say about him, then it more likely is historically accurate.

So on the one hand you can have identical genes leading to very different phenotypes, and on the other you can have dissimilar genes producing exactly the same

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly upon the unknown: and for her the unknown was frequently the commonplace.

it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.

In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked.

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

unlike his brother