Quotes About Comparison

I play as many instruments as Prince, and I can write as many songs as him, but he'll be way better than me forever.

I never would consider any comparison to Mark Martin an insult. I'll take those comparisons all day because the guy is a... driver that nobody wanted to face.

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.

I'm not a Maradona, and it's not my intention to become one.

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there's such incontrovertible evidence

Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it.

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to live your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of man I confess, my friend, I am puzzled

Great minds have sought you--lacking someone else. You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing

The Garrett" Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. Come, let us pity the married and the unmarried. Dawn enters with little feet like a gilded Pavlova, And I am near my desire. Nor has life in it aught better Than this hour of clear coolness, the hour of waking together.

I would like to accept C. H.'s book But it would make my own seem so out of date. Heaven will protect The lay reader.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

Rich, but not Trump-rich.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.