Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Diamond

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Alfred North Whitehead

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

A. R. Ammons

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Douglas Hofstadter

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Stephen Jay Gould

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Gillian Jacobs

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

Jeaniene Frost

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Jerry Stiller

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

Joe Volpe

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Alberta Stima

We're getting desperate for help because some of our substitutes are not always available.

Kevin Lygo

We're fortunate in having Lost, Desperate Housewives and My Name Is Earl but it is fiercely more competitive out there than ever before. This May you'll see a feeding frenzy.

Jonathan Sacks

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.

Tom Stafford

Let's not forget those folks that are in such desperate need,

Willie Mitchell

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.