Quotes About Comparison

Question: What's the difference between a cat and a comma? Answer: A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a comma means a pause at the end of a clause.

If it had been a fairy tale, and one twin had said, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All? the mirror could have made no answer. For two qualified.

Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip.

I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful....

Do just-friends sleep all tangled up like a bunch of baby granddaddy long-legged spiders?

Potato. Pa-taw-toe. Ain't much difference

I figured that once you've had steak, it's kind of hard to go back to bologna.

Nancy scanned the buildings and found that this one was the largest on the street. It was

The American alligator has a much broader snout than the crocodile, and is less vicious and active. The two reptiles are about equal in size and can grow up to twelve feet in length, but the croc weighs about a third less than the 'gator.

I am bombarded not only with all the cultural expectations for professional success, but I also encounter personal ones—like the ones for a perfect home and perfect children. The digital age only makes this worse. When the web plasters perfection everywhere, it's easy to feel intimidated by the comparison. It makes me ask, am I doing enough?

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

Because he had a mashed thumb like Ludie's?

Maud: Young women are never happy. Betty: Mother, what a thing to say. Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.

Star Wars and Star Trek are good in different ways, and in fairness, you can't really rank them. But Star Wars is better. "YOUR

Just call me the JLo of Interpol.

She wasn't the smart one or

I've seen the girls he's been with, Kendra. Guys like him don't pay attention to me. I'm always the sidekick, the supporting cast. I am in over my head here. I'm going back to bed and staying there for the weekend.

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Childbirth is nothing compared to exercise, and Gary was a big baby. This is what they should do to prisoners of war when they're trying to interrogate them.

You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.

Why can't people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?

Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is.

I was jealous of your perfection. And now I'm jealous that you're Flawed.

When I had got dressed that morning I had felt beautiful and ready to take on the world. Now I felt like the little girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that blew up like a blueberry and rolled off. The more they all stared at me, the more my confidence crumbled.