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Quotes About Comparison

As for why we're going over the plan again, let me remind you that one good screwup will make the fate of those poor bastards look sunny in comparison to what we'll get.
~ Scott Lynch
even tired she had that unfeigned natural poise which, in certain girls, makes young boys feel like something on the order of an insect beneath a heel.
~ Scott Lynch
Q: What do a Rubik's Cube and a penis have in common? A: The more you play with them, the harder they get.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? A: The taste.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: Why did God give blondes 2 percent more brains than horses? A: Because God didn't want them shitting on the street during parades.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What do blondes and computers have in common? A: You never truly appreciate them until they go down on you.
~ Scott McNeely
Sounded big," DeVontay said. "It's all relative. Bigger than a car, smaller than a house.
~ Scott Nicholson
The average wage in Australia is $78 832, according to the ABS. If you plug that into globalrichlist.com it shows that you're in the top 0.28 per cent of the richest people in the world by income. Yes, even on the average Aussie wage you're richer than 99.72 per cent of the global population.
~ Scott Pape
The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.")
~ Scott Stossel
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
~ Scott Thompson
What happens when perfection isn't good enough?
~ Scott Westerfeld
Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
~ Tim Ferriss
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
~ Vita Sackville-West
Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.
~ Yogi Berra
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
~ Edward Tufte
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
~ Francoise Sagan
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.
~ Al Pacino
I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.
~ Albert Pujols
Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.
~ Anthony S. Fauci
It's funny, 99% of the time, haters and the 1 they hate on have everything in common and could be best friends.
~ Behdad Sami