Quotes About Comparison

Facebook is that successful guy you're supposed to want to date, but you can't keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

I'm here in Whoopi Goldberg's office trying to choose some shoes. We've seen [Marco] Rubio has those cool new boots and I don't want to be outdone.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Sometimes we focus on other' flaws so we don't have to focus on our own.