Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

I don't think my serve compares to his serve, ... At least you can get a racket on mine.

I guess a lot of people compared it to Indiana Jones, where you go out into the jungle. About once a year I go to South America, Peru mainly.

Ian Scott

In Europe, (earnings) numbers are still being revised up, ... Estimates have risen by 11 percent in the past six months in Europe compared with 6 percent in the United States.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

In order to measure true growth, a distributor must secure from his vendors the real story in the form of pounds purchased compared to a previous period. A big increase in dollars is always fun to review, but it does not tell the true story.

Steven Bauer

I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.

Joshua Bell

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

Jon Seda

I know it's inevitable that there will be those who compare 'The Pacific' to 'Band of Brothers.' For years, the Pacific theater of war was not talked about as much as the European theater, yet it was part of the same war.

Clearly, we expect significant price expenditures (for heating fuels) this winter compared to last winter,

Being compared to one of the greatest players of all time is a sign that I work hard and with quality, but people tend to become obsessed with comparisons. Pele and I are very different; I am Ronaldo, I have my own characteristics an I wish to be jud

His acceleration and speed is unmatched in the history of the NFL. You can't compare him to anyone.

Chris King

By using the Internet we reduce our transaction costs by as much as 90 percent compared with traditional paper-based billing, ... That creates savings that we can pass on to customers.

Buck Showalter

I am real proud of where we are as an organization compared to where we were.

But there is still some difference compared with the practice in the international market where fluctuation of trading currencies are mostly not bottomed or capped.

They (the Irish) are a good unit, but you can't really compare us to them.

Emily is a wonderful athlete, she competed well. Michelle competed well at worlds last year. There aren't numbers I can compare there, there are relationships.

Earlier, we were considered optimistic, but it's difficult to compare all the numbers.

Even after years of smoking cessation, levels of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) are significantly higher in former smokers compared with never-smokers.

Even after years of smoking cessation, levels of atherosclerosis are significantly higher in former smokers compared with never-smokers.

Dave Bautista

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Brad Richards

Even compared to football it seems people are more interested in us.

Federalism doesn't have a lot of traction compared to winning the White House. Federalism is very abstract; the White House is quite concrete.

Fares continue to be competitive when compared to other airports in the eastern Iowa and western Illinois region. March has been an incredibly strong month, and we were in overflow parking for several days due to spring break.

The results were very upbeat. However, Sony Ericsson may have lost market share compared to the fourth quarter as the overall market was very strong in the first quarter.

Bill Gates

There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

Johan Santana

At this point in the season, compared to a couple of years ago, I feel much better.

Scott Aukerman

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

Don't hang your head. Compared to the machine she's got, I think we did damn good.

Ben Johnson

Current opportunities for less-skilled workers to come in legally are laughable when compared with the economic needs.

Tom Danielson

Cycling is very much in an elevated status right now compared to what it was three or four or six years ago.

A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from the November index compared to six points in 2005.

Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.