Quotes About Comparison

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.

No. 965 Fifth Avenue was a considerably more tasteful house than the old "house full of horrors" at 932.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

Calling a tenth- or eleventh-century Norman a Frenchman would have been a bit like telling a Glaswegian he's English, and we all know how dangerous that can be.

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

It is, therefore, a very great thing to be little, which is to say: to be ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.

Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.")

Some games, you are Reggie Miller. And, if you're really good, you're maybe even Cheryl.

We're not asking the real question, are we?" Letha the philosopher says, then. "What do you mean?" Jennifer asks. "Craven or Carpenter? Jason or Freddy? Psycho or Peeping Tom? Bava or Argento?

Sarah Michelle Gellar was in two marquee slashers in the same year," Letha says right back. "But she's no Linnea.

The number of sperm cells released in a single ejaculation of one man is 175 thousand times more than the number of eggs a woman produces in her entire lifetime. It can be more than the number of people in North America; hundreds of millions.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

Some 50 Americans were killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing, for a total of 94 casualties. According to Gage, the Redcoats suffered 65 killed, 157 wounded, and 27 missing, for a total of 272 casualties.41 The patriots exhibited excellent marksmanship for shooting flintlocks in anger, many for the first time in their lives. By comparison, U.S. forces in Vietnam expended 50,000 rounds to cause a single enemy casualty.

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

I fancy that the Irish language must have 57 different words for 'rain', in the same way that Inuit has for 'snow'. If, in reality, this is not the case, then I'm really glad I've never bothered to learn Irish'.

In short, you have all the social prospects of a garden gnome.