Quotes About Comparison

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

For the first time in Rex Ryan's career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.