Quotes About Comparison

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

There are distinctions between Indian and Pakistani writers.

I don't really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language. I don't really see any difference.

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

My idea is to create something that is at par with everything that is around the world or Hollywood.

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

People tell me, 'It's not on par with Vellimoonga,' after watching my movies.

I parade in next to no clothes every day. It's hard not to compare yourself to other people, but I think everyone is different, and that is something we should be celebrating.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Antarctica is a paradise compared to Mars.