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Quotes About Comparison

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
~ Emily Dickinson
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
~ David Brin
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.
~ Marc Andreessen
Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!
~ Mick McCarthy
Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
~ Nicholas of Cusa
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
~ Elijah Wood
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others
~ Henri Nouwen
The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."
~ Roger Ebert
Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father
~ Tony Randall
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
~ John Boyd Orr
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
~ Bob Hayes
For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
~ Bob Hope
Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.
~ Brad Gilbert
People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.
~ David Levithan
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time
~ Diana Gabaldon
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
~ Tim Yeo
The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.
~ Larry Ziegler
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
~ Martin Bashir
I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.
~ Michael Buble