Quotes About Comparison

You're not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?' Of course I am!

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1

A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition compared the "energy cost" of different foods in the supermarket. The researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the same dollar buys only 250 calories. On the beverage aisle, you can buy 875 calories of soda for a dollar, or 170 calories of fruit juice from concentrate.

What existential difference is there between the human being's role in this (or any) garden and the bumblebee's

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

I'm very happy to have people say I sound like Frank Sinatra.

Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.

It's OK if people say I sound like Frank Sinatra. I just don't want them to think I am Frank Sinatra.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

I couldn't sing like Mick Jagger, not that I wanted to.

If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that!

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

I am not the worst singer.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it's me. Lindsey would never say that. She's an actress first. It's just a bonus that she can dance and sing.

It feels great to be compared to Colombian singer Shakira.

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.