Quotes About Comparison

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

I'm a fan of Kobe and LeBron. People always try to make me pick one or the other, but I think they're both great. They both deliver.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

I'm bad at picking heroes.

In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his 'Gen. George Patton.' Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.

As a professional you're always judging each other and picking things out about whether you're better or not than those playing.

It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

I am lighter than Paul Pierce.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

For me, my continuous struggle with every project is, "Is it better than 'Pink?'"

I look at Weili Zhang and see myself. She has heavy hands and if we exchange, I want to be better than her. When she fires, I want to be the sniper and her with a small pistol.

Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.