Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a little uncommon, but it does happen. It's not one of those things that we issue every day, compared to flash flooding.

Jamie Dixon

It's a hand-off play. We dribble it over and hand it off. ... People say we're a football team playing basketball. We've heard it for the past couple of years now. They all say, 'Now we have to get ready to play the Steelers.' We think it's good to be compared to a team that's had so much success.

LeBron James

It puts a smile on my face to be compared to a legend. Year by year, as you play basketball, you've got to know the history of the game.

Stephen Lewis

It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.

It's not perfect, but compared to the competition, they've made significant progress.

For consumers, a big crop like this tends to stabilize wine prices. For growers, it may slow the rebound in prices for red grape varietals, except pinot noir, which remains in tight supply compared to the strong demand.

For 2006, we're saying California's median home price will go up by 10 percent, compared with a projected increase of 16 percent for 2005.

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.

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 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.

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.

Even after years of smoking cessation, levels of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) are significantly higher in former smokers compared with never-smokers.

Even after years of smoking cessation, levels of atherosclerosis are significantly higher in former smokers compared with never-smokers.

Dave Bautista

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Brad Richards

Even compared to football it seems people are more interested in us.

Federalism doesn't have a lot of traction compared to winning the White House. Federalism is very abstract; the White House is quite concrete.

Fares continue to be competitive when compared to other airports in the eastern Iowa and western Illinois region. March has been an incredibly strong month, and we were in overflow parking for several days due to spring break.

The results were very upbeat. However, Sony Ericsson may have lost market share compared to the fourth quarter as the overall market was very strong in the first quarter.

Bill Gates

There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.

Johan Santana

At this point in the season, compared to a couple of years ago, I feel much better.

Scott Aukerman

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

Don't hang your head. Compared to the machine she's got, I think we did damn good.

Ben Johnson

Current opportunities for less-skilled workers to come in legally are laughable when compared with the economic needs.

Tom Danielson

Cycling is very much in an elevated status right now compared to what it was three or four or six years ago.

A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from the November index compared to six points in 2005.

Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Mark Cuban

We are very happy with the results so far of this first day-and-date release, and while theatrical performance was not as high as we would have liked, it compared favorably to other similar films released this weekend.

David Perlmutter

The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.

Abhishek Bachchan

Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.