Quotes About Comparison

I'm a quarter of an inch taller than Jonathan at 6-foot-4 1/2.

I was always taller than everybody else.

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

I was always the tallest kid in my class.

I was always the tallest. I was five foot seven when I finished junior school.

I always looked the tallest when I was in the group. I look like a giant next to Cheryl. She's like a Polly Pocket, she's very petite.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

In Tampa, it's not that cold but it gets dark early here compared to Calgary.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Las Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

As far as assholes go, you're not the biggest one I ever met." "That I'll take as a compliment.

There are Hellions down there with more honor than half the humans I meet.

You're saying you're a better person than me?" Kasabian thinks about it. "Yeah. That's exactly what I'm saying." "Then let's drink to that.

Here's to all the guys better looking than us. May they all die first.

Once you have adjusted to a higher standard of living, it may give you little or no extra happiness.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?

Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets?

Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto», dice Ben Johnson con un tono tan satisfecho como triste. «Yo era capaz de hacer lo mismo que hace hoy en día Usain Bolt. La velocidad a la que él es capaz de correr en estas pistas tan rápidas de hoy en día es la misma a la que podría haber corrido yo». Y lo repite, «Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto. ¡Cincuenta años!». Lanza una carcajada, la misma que lanzaría ante una broma pesada.

Of course, if your ego can't get you to believe stories about yourself that make you feel superior, then it will look for ones that make you feel inferior instead. It will turn your thoughts to stories that make you feel weak and unworthy, as if you are an inconvenience, a burden on others, a failure, unattractive, incapable, or stupid.

Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small.

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.