Quotes About Comparison

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Yes, I mean, I can't match up to my mother's acting skills, actually both my parents. I just cannot match up to them. My mother was such a powerful and a respectable performer. They are actually overshadowing me and yes, I cannot be as good as them.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

Katy Perry look like Kermit the Frog.

I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement.

ABREAST He who aims to keep abreast is for ever second best.

REFLECTION ON SIZE Small people often overrate the charm of being tall; which is, that you appreciate the charm of being small.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun. (V-6-4)

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.