Quotes About Comparison

Everything in life is relative.

I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my life. No question.

If we give up the notion that everybody's life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Any other boy would be flattered. Pleased with himself. Any other boy would go straight to the seat she'd saved for him every day, not just when there's nowhere else to sit. Any other boy would lean close to compare notes. Borrow a pen. Compliment her. Tease her to find out if she has a steady boyfriend. Beg her for a date.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

unless statistics lie he wasmore brave than me:more blond than you.

Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?