#resemble

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#fan #feel #game #growing #growing up

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#lands #longer #may #moon #nothing

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#being #hears #knows #offers #only

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ↗

— David Mamet

#american #american football #ball #east #football

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#done #film #goes #hands #making

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#almost #arises #cannot #conduct #imitation