Quotes About Comparison

'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.

The Soyuz is probably only slightly smaller than the Dragon.

The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

My older sister Jemma is naturally slim, at least three dress sizes smaller than me - though I don't want to say what dress sizes we are, because I don't think the number on your clothing label is important.

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

I'm a big girl, so I want somebody that's going to make me look a little bit smaller.

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

If you try to simplify it as much as possible, I guess you could say if a guy who is my size can move around the same as a guy who is much smaller, you would think there are maybe going to be a few more advantages.

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.

I've had people tell me I'm fat, and I'm like one of the smallest people I've met in my life.

I thought the Little League fields were big. You look back now, and its obviously the smallest field you can play on.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.