Famous Quotes & Sayings

Compared to down there, Moultonborough made us work a lot harder so they've improved a little bit, but the game went about as expected.

Compared to countries in the region, Singapore has a very sophisticated dengue prevention system so when ... infections keep rising it's hard to tell what the problem is.

Anything that happened to me was nothing compared to what happened to Nick and the little girl. I'm sorry I interrupted their lives because of the dogs.

As compared to two years ago, we're ahead, ... We've had some things we've had to work through. We had to get everybody on the same page, we had to get them all going in the right direction. And that's what we've done. That creates a good, positive atmosphere.

Our doubles is much stronger compared to the fall. We're really looking forward to our match with Albany to see what we have to work on.

Grace Lin

Our data highlight a potentially important gender bias, in that fewer women, despite being eligible, are being referred for cardiac resynchronization therapy compared with a similar group of males. It is another example in recent years of potential under-treatment of women with heart disease in this country. Whether such 'referral bias' is universal, however, deserves further study.

People ask, are you still a growth stock? Compared to these guys, yes we are.

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.

Sales fell last month compared with December 2004's record-setting pace, prompted by consumers' concerns about rising interest rates.

Chris Fowler

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Sathya Baba

Pure heart is compared to the Himalayas, to the ocean of Milk, to a chariot for the Divine.

Reading (the Fed) has been trivially easy over the past year and a half, compared to what's it's going to be.

Susanna Clarke

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

Prices have doubled in some Florida markets over the past four or five years, so the 10 percent increase we're forecasting for the state this year might seem kind of small compared to recent trends.

Property prices may drop, but I do not think it will drop that fast. The consumers are more financially educated as compared to the last crisis, plus the interest rates are very low now...

Producers are going to be supplying more to the domestic market, where demand is surging because three new power plants are starting up this year. Local consumption may reach 35 percent of total output next year compared with 30 percent this year.

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.

Jamie Wyeth

The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.