Quotes About Comparison

I don't like it when people say I was the best ever. It's silly. I am not the best ever. I was the best of my time.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

Kirsten Gillibrand and I are very similar in our biographies. We're both mothers, we're both lawyers. But we couldn't be more different in our beliefs, in our principles, in our politics.

Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.

'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.

In 'Black Coffee' I am not the celluloid avatar of 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' director any more. How can you portray similar characters in two films?

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.