Famous Quotes & Sayings

What this project is costing the county is pennies compared to what it will generate over the next five to 10 years in property taxes and impact fees.

What this means is every teacher's salary will increase by at least $4,100 a year. By 2009, compared to the salaries they're receiving today, they will get at least $4,100.

Vehicle sales growth has been dramatic compared to last year. This suggests that the future demand for oil products will remain strong.

Matthew Wright

What are the ratings of Parkinson on ITV1 compared to those when it was on BBC1? I really do hope they're worse just to spite ITV. I hate them so much.

This is what it's about. You can't compare the two (seasons). It's much more special (to win a sectional).

This is very different, because the equity market is actually about 28 percent overvalued compared to our models right now.

This keeps station operators honest because they know customers can now compare prices around town and around the state.

They're flat out good. It's tough to compare individuals but I wouldn't hesitate to compare them favorably to any group I've seen. As a group, all four guys, they're as good as we've ever had.

I haven't had a 2-year-old like this so I can't compare him. So far, he's much faster than any of the horses he's raced against. But we have to take it furlong by furlong because you never know with young horses.

I have to say we are faster as a defense than we were in 2000. If we stuff the run like we've been doing, there's no telling what we're going to do, and how great this defense can be. I would never want to compare it player to player to 2000, but on the overall scale there's no telling how good we can be.

Elie Wiesel

I have to wonder about people who compare Israelis to Nazis.

Investors tend to compare one to the other and invariably that comparison is not favorable for Network Associates.

Chris Benz

I often feel like Facebook is a giant friend portfolio, and sometimes it can be a much more socially appropriate way of contacting a person as compared with texting or telephone. And never mind the fact that it's integrated into the iPhone. Makes me crazy in a super good way.

Andre Balazs

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Ian Anderson

In the past two weeks our reservations have increased by 49 percent compared to this time last year.

In terms of popularity, what hobby compares to being a sports fan?

If you walk through the office, compared to five years ago, there?s one-half-to one-third less people.

Kim Clijsters

In my mind as well I was positive, focused, and it was definitely a big step forward compared to yesterday. My serve was on most of the time. I felt good and was hitting the lines.

Inexperience is a concern. We don't have that many returning players compared to the rest of the division, but we do feel we have some good balance.

In 22 years of being in the business, there is nothing else that I can compare it to.

It has to play itself out . . . and some people say this is posturing, and in January that was posturing, but now it's March. When we compare our top eight to other power conferences' fourth and fifth teams, we show very well.

Eli Roth

I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films.

Robert Richard

If there's a problem, you can easily reverse (lap-band) by removing the band. It's the safest weight-loss procedure available, with a (national) mortality rate of 1 in 2,000, compared to 1 in 200 for gastric bypass.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Jimi Mistry

If we can be compared to a film like that then that's fantastic. If you can compare me to a male Nia Vardalos then that is even better because I think she's fantastic as well.

If you're playing a match and all of a sudden somebody gets a serious injury, you start to think that this match isn't really that important when compared to somebody's face. It's scary; that's the first time we've had that happen. It's tough to play, because your mind is on your fallen teammate.

John Hickenlooper

If you look at the number of people who died from terrorism, compared to the number of highway deaths or deaths from smoking, what is safe?

If you compare the two sets of communities, you have some problems of luxury in Bucks, with the property values and the heavy development pressure.

If you compare it to Katrina the term I would use is the damage is minor. But if it's your house and your home town, it's significant.

Martin Campbell

If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.

If you compared 'Harry Potter' to 'Star Wars,' you're probably in the same vicinity of expected revenue, you know, in the billion-dollar-plus range. And similar to 'Star Wars,' this is something that has been around for some time now and will be around for a long time in the future.

Andre Agassi

I don't know if I can put in context with how this compares with some of my greatest moments on tennis courts, but it's right up there,

Ali Karimi

How can you compare me with Diego Maradona? That is simply ludicrous. Maradona is a star in the football heavens.