#analogy

I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#boswell #chronicler #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #sidekicks

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. ↗

— Yann Martel

#art #books #art

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

#around #between #big #biggest #bipartisan

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#resentment #bad

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest ↗

— Winston Churchill

#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#really #singing #want #you

Life is like an analogy. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#life #like

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#apply #basketball #develop #invite #outs

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#normally #notice #pervasive #prediction

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny? ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#humor #humor