…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…
Alfred Korzybski
[on Bernardo Bertolucci] "For me, Bernardo is The Function. The only way I can explain it is in the analogy with mathematics and the word `function` - addition, subtraction, multiplication, anything that numbers go through and change because of it. And wh...
Debra Winger
I`m a visionary and a creative person. God blessed me with certain talents. I hate to use an analogy, but Walt Disney was creative but not good with business. His brother Roy handled the books. He loved creating family-oriented entertainment and so do I. ...
Michael Jackson
[on being typecast as a villain] I use the analogy that if you hit an old lady on screen with a shovel and kill her and somebody makes money from that moment, then they really don`t want you to step out from that parameter. They don`t want you to do anyth...
Michael Ironside
We often attribute "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
Alisha Marquette
The US has a pretty good record of falling into this trap. The Bush administration has so overused the Hitler analogy that it`s almost demeaning to history.
Anna Shuford
I like to use a football analogy. A sports reporter can write in depth and give you a good idea of the game, but you really don`t get it until you play it.
John Crawford
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 bo...
Patrick Robinson
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
Alan Feduccia
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
Arlen Specter
…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…
Alfred Korzybski
