Quotes About Analogies

You know what a platonic friend is to a woman? It's like a dick in a glass case. In case of emergency break open glass.

I study long-married couples and decide that wives are like bras: sometimes the most matronly are the most supportive.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the table.

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.

I gather sentences round, quotations, the literary equivalent of a cheerleading squad. Except that analogy's screwy—cheerleaders cheer. I put up placards that make me feel bad.

Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Pourtant les analogies entre le récit scientifique et ces mythes sont indéniables... S'agit-il d'une coïncidence ? Ou d'un savoir intuitif ? nous sommes nous memes composés de la poussière du Big Bang. Peut-être portons-nous en nous la mémoire de l'univers ?

The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of the writing with its brilliantly-conceived analogies is itself enough to win a reader to his side. As Austin Farrer expressed it, "We think we are listening to an argument; in fact we are presented with a vision; and it is the vision that carries conviction.

Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks." PHOEBE TRAEGER

Men are like Bluetooth: He is connected to you when you are nearby, but searches for other devices when you are away...Women are like Wi-Fi: She sees all available devices but connects to the strongest one...

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

El corazón del hombre es muy parecido al mar, tiene sus tormentas, tiene sus mareas y en sus profundidades también tiene sus perlas

By analogy, the "Records" reside in what we today might call, in computer lingo, a "zipped file" – which may be opened up and reanimated by "mystics," like a celestial television set.

So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.

And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry.