Analogies Quotes - Page 11

• I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Boston, Play, Guy

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• Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

  Henry Adams

  Succeed, Toys, Weapons

  "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres". Book by Henry Adams, 1904.

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• The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.

  Barack Obama

  Football, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

  Harrison Ford

  Real, Simple, Steps

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Zoos, Thinking

  "Charlie Rose" Interview, charlierose.com. September 29, 2004.

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• The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Technique, Impossible, Painting

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• People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if you use the analogy of a convoy of vehicles going to help a distress situation: they have all the resources needed (food, medicine, everything they need), and as the convoy is traveling, there's a rockslide. You can't get through the road. What good does any of that stuff do when you can't get it to where it needs to go?

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ideas, Medicine, People

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• What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep house or is it the way she looks? It's not politically correct, GM hates it when I draw that analogy. But it's absolutely correct."

  Bob Lutz

  Hate, House, Female

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• Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is Like, Boxes, Terrible

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• Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that.

  Louise Wilson

  Thinking, Rooms, Bikinis

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• A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

  Adam Gopnik

  Book, Charlie Hebdo, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B) enlarging my understanding of the central characters has to be sacrificed. I have huge folders of details - research - with a story like Netherlands. Only a very small part of it gets used. The old iceberg analogy again.

  Jim Shepard

  Moving, Character, Understanding

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

  Biz Stone

  Real, Moving, Communication

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do.

  L. Todd Rose

  Air, Average, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like to draw here is with our understanding of (other) natural kinds.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Views, Understanding, Kind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge might play an important role in empirical theories. To the extent that talk of knowledge can be shown to play an explanatory role in such theories, the analogy I wish to make with paradigm natural kinds such as acids and aluminum starts to make a good deal of sense. This is, of course, connected with the issue of the role of intuitions in philosophy.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Play, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to girls. That model doesn't let you say "I like it at second base, maybe I'll stay here."

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.

  Charlize Theron

  Home, Doors, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a big book of analogies.They always make me laugh.

  Kim Kardashian

  Book, Years, Laughing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the desk of a producer, he or she would know that the majority of moviegoers would rather listen to Prince. Since they are in the business of making money, no one can blame them. But if it ever came to the decision of making a film like that I'd say, "No." They are very easy films to make, though. In Purple Rain there is nothing complex about the way that they dance. Or sing. It would be a bit boring for an adult to make that film. It just wouldn't test their métier.

  Gene Kelly

  Rain, Purple, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.

  Jesse Ventura

  Block, Government, House

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Past, Events, Enough

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• It's such a cool group of people that it [being a part of the DC Universe] feels like, for lack of a better analogy, being back on something like [Harry] Potter. We're working with a really tight, talented family.

  Tom Felton

  People, Groups, Potters

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. September 24, 2016.

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• There's a real feel-good warmth to the show [The Flash]. It feels like you're watching, for lack of a better analogy, Friends mixed with Spider-Man or Batman.

  Tom Felton

  Real, Men, Feel Good

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.

  Viggo Mortensen

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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