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Quotes About Comparison

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
~ Michael Tippett
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
~ Sidney Poitier
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
~ Cyndi Lauper
People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity selfie and wonder how she looks so good, and why her lips look so big.
~ Paul Nassif
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
When I first came into the side as captain, I was accused of being quite conservative, quite negative, and just doing what Andrew Strauss did.
~ Alastair Cook
Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.
~ Aljamain Sterling
Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.
~ Mike Wallace
I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
~ Ralph Waite
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
~ Jeremy Taylor
When I was younger, most people thought my lips looked like Tweety Bird's - there were always comments like that from family and neighbors.
~ Lindsey Wixson
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
~ Nicole Kidman
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
~ Ian Hart
I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
~ Cat Power
My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
~ Randy Bachman
I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
~ Peter Fonda
I get mistaken for Jesy Nelson from Little Mix all the time.
~ Scarlett Moffatt
For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.
~ Amaal Mallik
I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.
~ Husnu Ozyegin
I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.
~ Ehud Barak
I'm not asking myself, 'How I can be different from Netanyahu?' because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by its own nature.
~ Tzipi Livni
There are many differences between Netflix and Comedy Central.
~ Tim Robinson