Nicholas Soames Quotes

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

There is one radical distinction between different minds … that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the difference of things, others to mark their resemblances.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Ideas never quite exist for him until they have been pitted against something else.

I think me and Mr. Dolph Lundgren look kind of alike.

Olivia Chow is no Jack Layton.

We are so different from each other. My brother is heavy-handed and my speed is more than his.

And the nature of split screen is a disconnect: It's a line between two characters, two images, two realities.

If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

The band is built on fire and venom, as is the energy that goes into racing - but it is a completely different discipline. They are very similar in a lot of ways but poles apart in others.

Of course I've been compared to Kevin Durant.

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.