Facsimile Quotes

#1. The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

Ted Allen

#2. After such prolonged frowning, it took her some moments to recall what her normal face even looked like, but after several attempts she was able to settle on a reasonable facsimile.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

Tama Janowitz

#4. Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.

Susan Cheever

#5. You interest me,' he said, and his tone suggested this fact itself surprised him, meant something more to him than perhaps it should: a man surprised by being interested was living a piss-poor facsimile of life, in her view.

Meredith Duran

#6. Like preachers, I sell vision,
like perfume ads, desire
or its facsimile. Like jokes
or war, it's all in the timing.
I sell men back their worse suspicions:
that everything's for sale,

Margaret Atwood

#7. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.

Liz Johnson

#8. I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. Most people know nothing about freedom; only the facsimile of freedom into which they were inculcated.

Bryant McGill

#10. History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Robert Smithson

#11. Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

Bryant McGill

#12. Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Garth Stein

#13. Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

#14. The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

D. Morgenstern

#16. Before Griffin had come along, I'd been living inside a photograph: just a facsimile of life, without either color or depth.

Jordan L. Hawk

#17. I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

Anderson Cooper

#18. There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Susie Orbach

#19. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.

Michael J. Marx

#20. There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

Shunryu Suzuki

#22. When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

Pharrell Williams

#23. A war is not lost until you consider it lost.

Erich Von Manstein

#24. My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Adam Carolla