Quotes About Comparison

Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.

Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn't me.

If we idolize our theological system, we must demonize other theological systems.

And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.

But she wasn't really listening, because underneath it all ran the fear that it had nothing to do with good fortune, that he had earned this, and she resented him because she could have done it, too, if she'd applied herself properly, become a lawyer, moved to Canada, run a business, and what she saw when she looked at Richard was not his success but her own failure.

I also said that I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people.

1 This is not a metaphor, it is a simile, which means that it really did look like there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils and if you make a picture in your head of a man with two very small mice hiding in his nostrils you will know what the police inspector looked like. And a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I

she watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat.

We're [Christopher & Ed] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

OdeÅ¡el jsem nahoru a sedÄ›l u sebe v pokoji a díval se, jak na ulici leje. Lilo tak straÅ¡nÄ›, že to vypadalo jako bílé jiskry (a tohle je pÃ…â"¢irovnání, ne metafora).

We're [Ed and Christopher] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

We're [Christopher and Ed] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

Disdain is only as intense as similarity.

As powerful a figure as this man was, still, he was more vulnerable than the slight little girl next to Alessandro. Even Alessandro knew, even at this moment, that the world had worn down the attorney Giuliani in ways that his son simply could not understand. The little ones, the delicate ones of nine or eleven, had all the strength, really.

For the next hour or two, keeping up with Alessandro would be a task that would set the boy to breathing hard and make him think that something might be wrong with his heart, because he found it difficult to stay even with an old man who carried a cane and whose every step was a cross between an uncontrolled pivot and a barely arrested fall.

It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

gastronomically, a wild salmon and a farmed salmon have as much in common as a side of wild boar has with pork chops.

Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.

French butter makes better pastry than American butter because it contains more fat and less water.