Quotes About Comparison

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

One thing I have found over years is that if you change direction, the initial reaction tends to be very polarized, but as the music gradually filters through and fans start engaging with it on its own terms rather than comparing it to what went before, the appreciation and acceptance of it increases.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister was a pageant girl. But me, I was this weird-looking hairy child. I had more than just a unibrow; I feel like I had a mustache, a goatee.

Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.