“The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.” WorldIdeasPowerfulMost PowerfulEnchantedResemblance Author:David O. McKay
“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.” LooksStillsFactsParentShareCellsGrassGenesWhalesResemblanceProgenyEnzymesResemblance Is Author:Lewis Thomas
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.” ThinkingWayGivingChildrenSpiritChoicesUniverseNamesHabitOur ChildrenMiseryMotherhoodTricksMannersSpiteGood ManFatherhoodNew LifeWrecksResemblanceGood MannersBribeWholesaleEmulation Author:June Jordan
“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.” DoneDamageRepeatsDisguiseCunningResemblanceRepeating HistoryHistory Repeats ItselfDamage Is Done Book:Clearing the ground Source: Clearing the ground
“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.” PeopleKnowsHardFoundNovelResemblance Author:Francoise Sagan
“There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.” MayCountryMatterSpeakLanguageInterestingSpeechNo Matter WhatDictatorHailResemblance Book:A Kind of Magic Source: A Kind of Magic
“Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection.” MeanArtIdeasFormUsedCertainCoursesIndividualInformationPaintingBearsReflectionFunctionVisualsCollectivesInterpretationTranslationsIllustrationResemblancePictorial Author:Gerhard Richter
“Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.” NamesFriendshipStrangeFineCatDeliveranceResemblanceFellas Author:Sam Cooke
“Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.” NeedsCultureSocialCausesEnvironmentBearsFindingsCellsBiologyResemblanceDissolutionNutrientsSocial Environment Author:Daniel Dennett
“Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.” LifeLooksWholeJobsProjectsGainsLeisureDevotedMaximumResemblance Author:Theodor Adorno
“There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.” PeopleWantHairPoolGenesVagueMisconceptionResemblanceHillbillyResemblance Is Author:Chris Isaak
“The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.” LiteratureDifferencesChurchStyleBuildingLondonPeterBerlinResemblanceSt Peter Book:Travels in England in 1782 Source: Travels in England in 1782