Quotes About Comparison

Her beauty was not like that of a bonsai, which achieves its charm by asserting its own will in defiance of the careful bindings that lash and restrict it. How, I wondered, would my grandfather describe Mitsuru's beauty?

It was Rowan who had coined the term lettuce-kid to describe them. Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and where far from being their parents' favorites. I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, is I guess I'm the lettuce

you're far from the greatest mind on Earth.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck.

She made the same money in ten minutes that I had made in a day with some hours thrown in. Monetarily speaking, it seemed sure as shit you were better off having a pussy than a cock.

I hated them because they had something I had not yet had, and I said to myself, I said to myself again, someday I will be as happy as any of you, you will see.

Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Shakespeare never did this.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

Curtis was just a chip off old Franky only she had much better legs. Poor Franky didn't have any legs but he had a wonderful brain. In some other country he would have made

He was one of those who looked like a genius. I looked like a dishwasher so these types always pissed me just a bit.

he was rather a handsome guy and I guess he was jealous because I was so ugly.

I don't deserve what you have and I want to keep it that way.

It was worse than Music Appreciation.

Eugene wins again because he's not even thinking about me.

but the worst part is (like jumping off the garage roof) Eugene wins again because he's not even thinking about me.

A careful investigator, Young interviewed farmers, recording their methods and the size of their harvests. According to his figures, the average yearly harvest in eastern England from an acre of wheat, barley, and oats was between 1,300 and 1,500 pounds. By contrast, an acre of potatoes yielded more than 25,000 pounds—about eighteen times as much.

Roughly speaking, two peoples' genomes differ in only about one out of every thousand bases. This is like having two pages in two different books differ by a single letter.