Quotes About Comparison

I always thought Mario Cipollini was difficult to beat but I think Cipollini would have found it very hard against Cavendish.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

I don't feel like I'm in competitive with anybody. If I'm worried about beating somebody else, I'm not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn't be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose.

I could beat Yoel Romero, who is probably more dangerous than someone like Anderson Silva, but I would get more credit for beating Silva.

I'm bigger than the Beatles!

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

My father said that I was lower than a dog, because even a dog believes in God.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

I have to admit, the terrorists were following their prophet," Dan says. "They were willing to do essentially what I did. I see the parallel. But the difference between those guys and me is, they were following a false prophet, and I'm not. "I believe I'm a good person," Dan insists. "I've never done anything intentionally wrong. I never have.

If someone like Pete Schoening was the equivalent of a major-league baseball star, my fellow clients and I were like a ragtag collection of pretty decent small-town softball players who'd bribed their way into the World Series.

Those who would assail The Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions.

finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans….

Asked whether history had ever seen anything like the Depression, John Maynard Keynes replied: "Yes. It was called the Dark Ages, and it lasted four hundred years.

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country," the novelist Sinclair Lewis

Son," Johnson said, "I've served in the House. And I've been privileged to serve in the Senate, too. And they're both good places to serve. So I wouldn't begin to advise you what to do, except to say this—that the difference between being a member of the Senate and a member of the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." The former president paused. "Do I make my point?

There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.

Petter and I were probably peas in a pod.