Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Phillips

My first impression, as compared to four years ago, is that there's a lot more stuff and more lab equipment here. Plus there's also been an accumulation of spare parts, as well as trash, that hasn't been able to come back.

My efforts are nothing compared to what's being put in. It's just going to be a wonderful night for Art.

Brad Wilkerson

Montreal compared me to Rusty Greer when I was drafted. If I can do half as much as he did around here, it's going to be very special.

Money's just getting tight and something had to go. And insurance is one of the easiest things when you compare it to electricity and phone and mortgage.

Obviously, it's a much larger project, and it would be unfair to compare it to the timetables of other universities.

Jay McKee

Obviously, there's nothing that compares to the '99 Cup run. Nothing will ever compare to that unless you win it all.

Mike Sherman

Obviously that's three too many penalties. We have to weigh the production of what (Whitticker) is doing compared to what he's giving up. Three pretty important penalties, so I have to consider that. Not to make excuses for a rookie, but he is doing some pretty good things. He knows his assignments, is a pretty physical player. I think he will continue to get better. That doesn't mean we're going to stay with him if this persists.

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.

We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.

We've never been compared to the Dow. No managers use the Dow as a benchmark.

Schuyler Fisk

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

Jose Barroso

We have a really urgent problem with our deficit, especially compared with the United States, in science, research and innovation.

We have a pretty young team so we think it's going to be a month before we're at where we want. It might be too late, but that's our goal. Compared to the past, we have a lot of more speed. But the trade off is that we are inexperienced.

We have just raised the production number for this year compared to what was planned.

We have hundreds of pieces of new music being composed every year. How many will last? This has always been true. How many of Brahms' pieces lasted? And what of Brahms' contemporaries, the ones whose work hasn't survived? It is unfair to compare today's music to what has endured, which is only the greatest music. The point is to listen, to keep listening.

This program will have little or no impact on rates compared to what ratepayers would otherwise pay to support the renewable energy standard, but will greatly diversify the overall program by including distributed solar power.

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.

Dee Dee Myers

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Italo Calvino

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Isaac Brock

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.