Quotes About Comparison

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

Stop thinking that nobody is "good enough".

Her voice was so perfect a replica of her sister's as might lead one to suppose that her vocal cords had been snipped from the same line of gut in those obscure regions where such creatures are compounded.

Love is like falconry, he said. Don't you think that's true, Cleveland? Never say love is like anything. said Cleveland. It isn't.

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

I like the way she dances. She shows a heavy Pharaonic influence, I'd say, in the elbows. With perhaps just a soupçon of Snoopy in the feet.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low.

the greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast

The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Used to be - in the old days - the media image roughly corresponded to reality. But now it's all reversed. The media image is the reality, and by comparison day-to-day life seems to lack excitement. So now day-to-day life is false, and the media image is true. Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

Monster' is a relative term; to a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat.

If you imagined the human lifespan of sixty years was compressed to a day, then eighty million years would still be 3,652 years—older than the pyramids.

You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?

Do you imagine, Peter, that your Carpe Diem boots would look any less deluded to them than that guy's Tony Lamas do to you? There's a comeuppance for everyone, wherever you are, and the farther you go from your own fiefdom, the more ludicrous are your haircut, your clothes, your opinions, your life. Within easy walking distance of home are neighborhoods that might as well be in Saigon.

She is an attractive, robust, fleshy, large-headed woman several years younger than Laura (it seems that every one, suddenly, is at least slightly younger than she).

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different. —DONALD TRUMP Perched

De mess leek eigenlijk meer op een goedkoop visrestaurant dan op een oorlogsonderzeeboot.

There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.

Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being someone else, and spend their whole lives traveling place to place.

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Here was another way Israel was different from the United States: Its wars were short, and someone always won.