Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alan Alda

I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.

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.

Bruce Forsyth

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

Jamie Foxx

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

Leonard Slatkin

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Whereas it took the last official runners 30 minutes to cross the starting line last year, this year it will take fewer than 10 minutes for each wave to cross. It is important to note that the anticipated net difference in this method versus previous years' 'one gun, one start' is only about 10 minutes, meaning the last runner will be crossing the starting line this year at 12:40 p.m. as compared to 12:30 p.m. last year.

Lee Iacocca

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

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.

We do better with the market that we have given to us than -- I could start naming teams: Houston, Dallas and some of the other large-market teams -- when you consider what we generate out of our market compared to what they generate out of theirs.

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out

Robert Vaughn

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Bill Parcells

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

There are a tiny number of mobile-phone viruses compared to the threat on the Windows platform.

Courteney Cox

Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

Lucy Punch

That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you.

Miranda Hart

I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.

Chandra West

My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really.

Gore Vidal

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

I thought we had speed - well, we do have speed - but speed is a relative thing, ... We'll have speed compared with the next few folks we play. Compared to Brookhaven, we have speed, but they have more of it.

I thought that we were more patient with our offense in the second half compared to the first which was important.

I think we pay very well compared to other retailers in the area,

I think that compared to other teams we are looking competitive.