#resembles

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

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#animal #beginning #behavior #cross #human

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#genius #lightning #like #resembles #sun

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking. ↗

— Robert Hass

#loss #new #old #resembles #thinking

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #celestial #come #else #every

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#arab world #behave #behavior #certain #influence

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs. ↗

— Elie Saab

#extent #i #just #large #large extent

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes