Quotes About Comparison

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

Któ? móg? si? w ?askawo?ci porówna? z agitatorem? Kto si? osta? dobrym przy nim? Nawet Bóg ju? nie by? dobrym, bo mówi?: Nie rusz cudzego. A przybysz ze ?wiata, nios?cy czerwon? gazet?, mówi?: Co cudze, to twoje. Któ? wi?c móg? by? od niego lepszym?

How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is.

Falling in love and identifying birds have similar effects.

Perhaps Jesus was prescient when he compared himself to a hen; we have certainly had our way with him—caging and packaging.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Your like Martha Stewart on crack," my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.

Sometimes something is so badly broken you cannot recreate its original shape at all. If you try, you create a deformed, imperfect image of what you've lost; you will always compare what your creation looks like with what it used to look like.

Son, if you were any farther from fine you'd be in Nebraska.

Gemma murmured. Even if she could afford Stella's

Sure she wanted him to be someone else, or at least sort of someone else. Pretty much everyone wants everyone else to be at least sort of someone else, don't they?

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.

While boys create connections through friendly competition, girls create connections by downplaying competition and focusing on similarities.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

You feel resentful to be on the low side of the comparison, yet being on the high side brings no peace either, because there's no such thing as being better all the time. So this is a great game to give up---you win by walking away.

People often resent the dealers. But in the end they prefer them to thugs or thieves.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

Cody tossed the ball to Ryan and draped his arm across Jade's shoulder. Daniel fought the urge to go knock it off. She smiled up at Cody. The look she gave him cut right through Daniel. He took in Cody's scruffy goatee, his office attire, his slight build. Was that the kind of man who appealed to Jade?

Her smile made him want to stare at her all afternoon. He thought of Willow's cousin. Her beauty was no rival for Meridith's pixie chin and guileless eyes. "I'll