Analogies Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

  Sarah Palin

  Basketball, Sports, Team

  “Quitting Is Like Playing Basketball With Dead Fish” by Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

  Eliphas Levi

  Law, Movement, Harmony

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.425, Weiser Books

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Hollis Frampton

  Snow, Style, Environmental

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• Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and Friday, a woman on Sunday and Thursday, and have the rest of the time off for independent study.

  Jane Roberts

  Friday, Independent, Sunday

  "The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time".

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• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Confused, Inspiration

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• People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Unique, Two, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.197, Vintage

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• There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

  Rob McKenna

  Reform, Needs, Spirit

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