Quotes About Analogies

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

In the German camps and on the Democrat-run plantations, forced labor was employed with "human tools" solely with regard to productivity and with little if any regard for the lives of the workers who were, in both cases, considered inferior and even subhuman. The analogy between two of the worst compulsory confinement and forced labor systems in human history is not merely legitimate; it is overdue.

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Knowledge in the head includes conceptual models; cultural, semantic, and logical constraints on behavior; and analogies between the current situation and previous experiences with other situations.

It was not that her brain was less efficient than theirs, within its limits it was more so; but it was like the keyboard of an adding machine as opposed to that of typewriters.

Girls are like cell phones, they like to be held and talked to, but press the wrong button and you're disconnected. Guys are like buses. If you miss that one, another will be along soon.

The peculiar tendency which he had always had to look for analogies between living people and the portraits in galleries reasserted itself here,

Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? For the same reason dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men - it fixes everything

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

Twitter. You know what it is? Termites with microphones.

He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

A cynic once defined a metaphor as 'a simile with the words of comparison left out'.

In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.

Em definitivo, nós somos tão donos do clima como de nós mesmos e deciframos o céu com a mesma perplexidade que os movimentos do nosso coração. Quanto à analogia feita entre a atmosfera e o humor, ela não é segura: um sol esplendoroso pode-nos ferir com a sua exuberância, a neve e o nevoeiro podem-nos mergulhar num júbilo perene.