125 Quotes About Analogy

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

It will limit the success if they're not materially better than the current-generation games. The analogy is, do you buy a new PC if you don't have a reason to? You just don't do it.

I can't even think of a good- enough, pathetic analogy for shooting a bison resting on the ground.

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

I don't know how much credit I can take for him. He has a very wide range of skills. There's an old analogy that you can do lots of jobs with a hammer and a screwdriver, but it's better to have a few more tools in the box. Dan seems to have a full tool box.

Even when Lincoln hanged draft dodgers, he made public his deviation from the law and imposed martial law. There is no analogy and no precedent for clandestine surveillance of domestic telecommunications without a court order.

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.