Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Franz Beckenbauer

We used to always complain that the Italians were actors. But they were heroes compared to our league now.

Wal-Mart has been losing same-store sales momentum due to store cannibalization and it's stock has been dead money for over five years compared to Target,

Gunnar Myrdal

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.

The previous month was huge, so of course we were expecting a weaker number. The important thing is how it compares with the month's trade deficit.

Ani Difranco

What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?

Donna Shalala

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

While hedging and surcharges will partially offset this, we still face a 600 million dollar shortfall compared with last year,

Isabelle Huppert

With theatre, I like to compare it to sculpture. It is a shape that you shape. I have this funny image in my head. You can extend it, reduce it.

When we play other teams that have year-round facilities, you can see the level that they are at compared to ours. If we had a year-round program and kids could skate during the summer, it would really grow and our competitive abilities would be higher.

Jim Lea

When we look at the the reliability and the cost of nuclear energy and compare it with what's happening with fossil fuels, we don't have too many options.

The president signed into law a $100 million increase for the corps for the current fiscal year compared to the previous year's level.

Bob Riley

The president of the United States called in and he said 'Bob, with 3,000 votes that's a landslide compared to some races,'

Fabiola Gianotti

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

Daniel Kahneman

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.

Bruce Vilanch

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.

Andrea Hirata

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

Adam Jones

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

John Dulles

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.

Antony Gormley

Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

Steve Gleason

There are going to be ups and downs all year. One thing we all talked about, no matter how tough and frustrating it is for us to have no home games or be on the road for the next five or six months, it doesn't even compare to what these New Orleans natives are going through. It's our city. We see this as our opportunity to shine on New Orleans.

There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

There are a lot of value investors who have done tremendous style drift, ... The funds have drifted so dramatically that it's hard to compare us to them.

When you look at national figures you get one picture, and you get another when you look at geographic variation. The places in the country where we have very high rates of deaths from heart disease are places that have historically experienced economic underdevelopment. ... There have been a lack of opportunities for people to experience healthy living compared to other areas.

We're not a big team compared to other teams in the NHL, but we are a quick team and I think we can handle our own in the physical areas, in front of the net and in the corners, ... I don't see us being disadvantaged in size.

We keep doing stretch records each year, but for our size community, we'd probably be compared to communities with populations of three to four hundred thousand.

We don't play enough league games, so every loss in league is magnified. You can go from third to 10th with one loss. It's pretty dramatic compared to other leagues.

We compared North Korea's thoughts with ours, ... There are similar points as well as different points.

We compare between Paddy's and here and it is exactly the same.

Charlie Jones

We have been making steady progress for the last couple years on improving our depth, ... We now have 60 players in our program, compared to only 35 two years ago.