Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are pleased with our strong sales performance this quarter. Our U.S.A. comparable toy store sales were up 13 percent for the third quarter and 6 percent for the first nine months.

We want people to have a comparable standard of living to what they have on Earth. We think it would be a pretty nice place to live.

We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curriculum. The program stays true to state standards.

The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

We won't go on forever dumping money into this team. We need a market rate lease or a lease comparable to what other minor league hockey teams are paying in the WHL.

So far, the testing is going very well. The performance has been good, and fuel mileage has been comparable to the 2002 engines.

Tom DeMarco

Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction.

People will get up in the middle of the night to see the pandas. I don't think there is a comparable animal. There isn't the enormity of response that you find with pandas.

Nine losses in that league is comparable to seven in ours.

One thing that is comparable between those two teams is that this team looks like it is very close-knit. We got together (outside of basketball), and there was a lot of respect for each other.

Growth generally lagged in Europe, with only two nations - the United Kingdom and Spain - showing growth comparable to the worldwide rate.

Richard K. Morgan

I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.

Growth rates (on sales) are comparable to what we saw before the hurricanes nationally.

To find something comparable to that, but in our own culture, that was refreshing.

Jim Davidson

His track record is comparable to Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett, ... statistically ... shouldnt exist.

I think what they have is comparable to what we want to end up with.

It gives them all the detailed information - tax bills, improvements made, square footage, number of bathrooms - all the things you need to search for comparable assessments. The state is promoting putting this out in the public to do what the assessors are supposed to do: provide fair and equitable assessments.

Without the Soviet Union's material base, Russia now is playing the part of a global power comparable to the United States. The current Russian elite shares a Soviet vision of the world ... and it's trying to imitate Soviet diplomatic efforts.

Ahmed Zewail

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

We see it as just another lottery game that's comparable to bingo.

Matthew Scully

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

This will put industrial (permitting process) on an equitable playing field with residential and will make us more comparable with other regions.

We raced some of the hottest programs. We had comparable times and speeds with many of them. We'll be in the mix with a lot of crews.

Overall, we ran really well. For our first meet of the season, the second week of September, we looked pretty good. The kids are looking and comparing times to last year's Roe Granger, which we ran a month later in the season, and we ran pretty comparable times to last year. Our guys really ran well together. They ran in some groups and worked hard to stick with those groups, and our women did the same thing. Several times on the course we had groups of three or four all together. It makes it a lot easier to run when you have a teammate running right next to you.

June was a difficult month for retailers and it's also typically a month during which comparable sales are driven by discount sales.

It is comparable to a real World's Fair that lasts 90 days - so does ours, just that it will be nine days for 10 years.

Hannah Murray

I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

We'll probably see him before the year is up. From what I've heard of him, he's comparable to Huston Street who's now with Oakland.

Robert Teeter

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

We don't see this as (an expansion of gambling) because it's something that the lottery can already do. It's comparable to a new convenience store going up that sells lottery tickets. That wouldn't be an expansion of gambling.

We should have a comparable season this year. We've worked toward that direction and we hope to continue that way.

This win allows us to go through to the next round. We did a great effort and we hope to defend the title. This team has discipline and good tactics, and its comparable to top European teams. We are well prepared.