Likenesses Quotes

#1. All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Ernst Gombrich

#2. The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to procure this inestimable benefit for them; anticlericalism and American bustle would soon free them from belief in miracles and holy likenesses.

Robertson Davies

#4. All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

Jacob Bronowski

#5. If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 - the famous First Folio.

Bill Bryson

#6. Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

Katharine Brush

#7. My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent
and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.
He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.

Frank O'Hara

#8. This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see it in children, in whom nature is more integral and less corrupted by convictions and prejudices, that the first faculty to emerge is that of seeing similarities.

John Eliot Gardiner

#9. A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Edvard Munch

#10. Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.

Tom Wujec

#11. We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world

Peace Pilgrim

#12. She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.

Lisa McMann

#13. Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

Dick Dale

#14. Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#15. But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Lafcadio Hearn

#16. A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.

Josef Skvorecky

#17. I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

Ransom Riggs

#18. Because you've been giving me happy for months now. All my life I've been looking for it. I didn't know what I was looking for, exactly. Only that I'd know it when I found it. You're it. You're my happily ever after. (Bennet)

A.S. Green

#19. It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

Oprah Winfrey

#20. You can resolve any situation with wisdom

Sunday Adelaja

#21. If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

Jenny Pitman

#22. America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

Kurt Cobain

#23. Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

Publilius Syrus

#24. I don't have that many friends.

Agyness Deyn

#25. I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

Peter Hargreaves