Famous Quotes & Sayings

We used to talk about open systems compared to very proprietary systems like the AS/400 where you could only get it from one vendor. It just isn't the same type of discussion any more.

Scott Aukerman

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

The primary reason for the list is to supply prospective students with information to help them decide where they want to go to school, to provide one tool. The secondary reason is for schools to compare themselves to each other.

Lamar Alexander

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

Jeff Cook

When you compare this year and last year, it's like a 180-degree turnaround this year. It's completely different. When you go from a dry year to another dry year, it's not as noticeable.

When you compare this team to the last two years, we're mentally stronger. We don't have the physical strength like we did the last two years, but this is the most mentally seasoned team I've been on. We know how to perform in pressure situations. We know how to come back.

When you compare the sentence for Capt. Schweitzer, who was the one who actually destroyed the tape, with the sentence Capt. Ashby received, it's hard to understand the disparity.

When you compare that to the industry multiple of 13.5, these stocks look a little overpriced but they are in good shape.

When you compare our endowment to the benchmarks set by the Council on Postsecondary Education, we are low.

When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.

When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don't always have an apples-to-apples comparison.

Jess Walter

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Gabrielle Giffords

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

Terry Anderson

Selling public lands can help reduce the drain on the treasury and give us benchmarks to compare private with public management.

She was surprised and thrilled, but I'm a novice compared to her.

She's Shaq. That's who people will compare her to ? the Shaquille O'Neal type.

The overall relationship is strong, but trade and economic ties have lagged behind, especially compared to China-India trade.

Brian Harvey

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

Brewster Kahle

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Valentina Tereshkova

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Bruce Forsyth

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

Louis Leterrier

I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one... if I come back, I'd love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on.

Veronica Roth

I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

Bill Hader

You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Arnold Palmer

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

Pete Domenici

The only reasons to vote will be yes or no on ANWR, not Medicare or anything else, so maybe the House will have the votes for it, as compared with a vote for a mixture.

Joe Crede

To be able to perform on this stage and be compared to all those great players, it's definitely an honor,

Rudy Giuliani

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

Sugar Ray Leonard

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

Allen Boyd

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

Tika Sumpter

I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.