Quotes About Comparison

It assumes that better means faster. By those standards, a typewriter is nothing but a very bad computer.

Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us.

How would we ever know aliens? We can't even know birds.

We scientists are taught never to look for ourselves in other species. So we make sure nothing looks like us!

The trees thicken like enchanted things. Chestnut is quick: By the time an ash has made a baseball bat, a chestnut has made a dresser. Bend over to look at a sapling, and it'll put your eye out.

We only see things that look like us.

The only thing worth believing in is measurement.

Chestnut is quick: By the time an ash has made a baseball bat, a chestnut has made a dresser.

Kids in my class think a black walnut looks just like a white ash. Are they blind?" "Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us. Sad story, ain't it, kiddo?

Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed how far these beauties hers exceed!

A six-foot-tall man and a ten-pound monkey are pretty evenly matched in a stand-up fight. The monkey will be all over the man. By the end of the fight, the man may need hundreds of stitches, and could be blinded.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, said that what he resented in most Christians was what he perceived as a constant underlying resentment: (1) a denied resentment toward God for demanding sacrifice, (2) toward others for not appreciating our sacrifice, (3) sacrificing as much as we sacrifice, (4) and a resentment toward others for not having to do it!

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

Roo looks out for me. Roo has better sense than I do," Ashley went on miserably. "It's always been that way, ever since we were little. She's always had the brains. And I've always had…not the brains." Etienne's eyes and Parker's eyes met behind Ashley's back. "Not going there," Etienne mumbled.

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

The desert of Central California was in those days a lot like Mongolia.

That cigar-chomping hemorrhoidal bigot who sits astride the riding mower on the two and a quarter acres beside you, he is smart enough to spend his IRA on this stock, so why can't you? Do you want him to have something you do not?

She's out of my league, but if she has herpes... That puts us in the same league! The herpes league!

Never seen Jason fly before, Percy grumbled. He looks like a blond Superman

You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks.

My eyes were gray—more like my cousin Annabeth's than my mom's.