#unlike

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#away #case #cliche #done #exerted

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. ↗

— William Labov

#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#goes #letter #like #must #objects

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. ↗

— John Byrne

#boy #dream #feel #find #i

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#actual life #because #black #black and white #color

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#case #claim #end #events #future

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely. ↗

— Brian Molko

#finding #hand #happens #hate #hopefully

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. ↗

— Alan Moore

#childish #comic #comic books #films #illiterate

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers. ↗

— Gordon Moore

#area #careers #coming #degree #excitement