Famous Quotes & Sayings

This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.

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

A lot of people compare it to a street fight.

They need to grow their customer base, ... They had a nice compound growth rate until you compare the March 1998 quarter with the March 1997 quarter. March 1998 sales are flat with the year-ago quarter. That's not a good sign in an intensely competitive industry.

Lee Smith

You're talking about guys here who play 25 to 30 games a season compared with 160 in our major leagues. They don't have facilities like we have here. You should have seen them when they got here ? they were taking pictures of the grass on the fields.

Dee Brown

You're always going to be compared to last year's team whatever you do, ... You can't do that. It's going to be a different team and it's going to be fun to watch because everybody's so new.

You really can't compare the two championships. These kids really worked hard for this and they deserved it.

You name the state or the drug company, and they will all have representatives there. We're the only group from West Virginia that is going. We might be small potatoes compared to others, but we think our presence will be felt.

David Morse

Young urbanites spend a lot of money--a lot more than they have. This generation is very, very materialistic compared to prior generations. It's not about spirituality and self-realization like the '60s. It's much more about having stuff as an expression of who you are as a person.

Shane Doan

You never want to say, 'This one's for him,' because nothing compares to that, but it's a good way to go home. We're finding ways to win games again.

This is fairly delayed compared to normal. It just got really super cold.

This is fabulous, fantastic. Compared to when I was in high school, this is so meticulous. The teachers must really have a knack for teaching the kids how to do art.

Francis Collins

This is a pair of programs where the public is the main winner. The genome has been compared to a textbook, and what we're talking about today is an opportunity to learn how to read that textbook in a more precise way.

They go to the net, move the puck well and they're big and strong compared to us. They wore us down.

Steven Jackson

You can't look at another guy's stats and try to compare them with yours, at the end of the year we'll see how it comes out,

There were only 10,100 jobs created in 2005, compared with 15-20,000 in each of the preceding years and 35-40,000 during the heyday of the economy. Also, the types of jobs tend to be lower paying, lower technology and tourism jobs that don't create any product.

Marcus Giles

It's just good to get out there and get into game mode a little bit. When you do so much working out on the side like I have been, you can only get so much of that. It just doesn't compare to game situations.

Sidney Crosby

It's just frustrating to lose, that's pretty much it. I thought we played better but I don't think our standard should be compared to the last game we played here. We played better than that but it's not good.

Sidney Crosby

It's just frustrating losing, that's pretty much it. Either way, it (stinks) to lose. I thought we played better. We still have better in us. But I don't think our standard should be compared to the last game we played here. If we're trying to play better than that, it's not good. We have to play to our own level.

Roy Williams

It's just a wonderful treat for us (as coaches). You see really good players in one setting and compare how they are to other players as well.

It's just senseless. If people could see him now compared to how he looked before, they'd be shocked.

It's a small piece compared to what people are looking at down south. If I knew something I could do to go load up and help people, I'd rather be doing that than practicing.

I try to get through each day just by remembering that what we're doing is a minor sacrifice compared to what workers are going through. We're just doing a little to help them a lot.

Alex Smith

It was definitely funny. But compared to his other seasons, it wasn't as good. I guess because with the other seasons, everything seemed so new. They really weren't as funny as his older stuff.

It was so fast it was amazing. The most interesting thing is the scope. This is huge compared to the tsunami.

It was real different, compared to the people and everything.

He said that some people may compare (Bush) to Hitler.

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

Every time I feel sorry for myself having to do this, I just look at the people who have to go through this every day. They have to live without somebody in their life. Whatever I have to go through is minuscule compared to that.

Trisha Goddard

Because I say why don't you compare me to (American host) Sally Jessy Raphael,

Everything pales when compared to this. These demonstrations are historic because they surpass in size any of the previous Latino-organized protests, going back to the '50s and '60s.

David Chang

Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

Actually, problems here are very, very minimal compared to other universities.