Semblance Quotes

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHIN. - Bill Gates

You can take facial-recognition software and run that composite through a database of criminals you have on file already, and see whether there's any kind of resemblance in there. - Jim Miller

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. - Leo Kottke

With the death toll still rising, it will take untold millions of dollars to get back some semblance of life along the nation's Gulf Coast. Most of us will never truly understand what it is like to have your life turned upside down overnight. No place to call your own. To become homeless in a day is unthinkable. - Alan Curtis Green

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. - Madame De Stael

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike. - Madame De Stael

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. - Anne Louise Germaine De Stael

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. - Socrates

When I look back at `The Metal Man,' I can see it has certain characteristics of an A. Merritt story called `The People in the Pit,' ... The resemblances are not apparent, but I can see they are there. - Jack Williamson