Quotes About Comparison

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I think I affiliate with somebody like Ben Howard. He's quite a bit younger than I am, but I think what he's doing is in a very similar tradition.

Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

I usually go out riding late at night when there's no traffic because L.A. has become almost like the Philippines now as far as traffic.

I can't say my life has been dominated by tragedy. I refuse to accept that. I've had less than some, more than others.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

I couldn't believe how big Ben Affleck's trailer was. It was like a spaceship - I remember thinking, I'd live in that.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class - they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.

I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

These five-and-a-half seasons I was working with Ajax as the head coach, and four-and-a-half as the trainer of the academy, it cost me less energy than the eight months of Inter and Crystal Palace.

You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

Everyone has their own traits but if you are being compared to players like Rio Ferdinand then you must be doing something well and hopefully I can keep that going.

I haven't dunked since Bill Clinton was in office, so I'm just happy for anyone who can do so without a trampoline.

There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.

When I came up to the main roster, it was such a different transition in seeing people pass you before your eyes. It just takes a toll on your heart because you're like 'what am I doing wrong? What can I do better? How can I be where they are?'

It's hard to translate excitement for one candidate to another.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.