Quotes About Comparison

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.

It's one of the big mysteries about Venus: How did it get so different from Earth when it seems likely to have started so similarly? The question becomes richer when you consider astrobiology, the possibility that Venus and Earth were very similar during the time of the origin of life on Earth.

It's quite possible there's as much lightning on Venus as on Earth.

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not used to with American sport. There's that constant comparison of America sport and franchises verses Formula One - American sport works in America, it doesn't work globally.

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

I don't judge a player by T20 performance, I judge them from their performances in longer version of cricket.

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

People tell me I'm like the country version of Justin Timberlake. Actually, the other day someone told me I was an unathletic version of Justin Timberlake, and I was like, 'I'll take that.'

Obamacare is, quite simply, the federal version of Romneycare.

You just want so badly to be the best version of what people are saying, you want to look like the covers you're on, but it's hard to do that everyday.

I always say, men's ankles are kind of like men's version of cleavage. That's what I think, because it's sexy. It shows, like, you dare to go there.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

Is building n sugar really better than building on sand?

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

AND NOW HERE I WAS IN THE LAP OF LUXURY, FAR FROM THE hooting and screeching and dirty socks of my normal domestic life. It probably wasn't fair to compare, of course, which was a good thing. This hotel made even my new, swimming-pooled house seem squalid—made my whole little life seem just a bit less bright and shiny.

Aikman, whose vocal stylings are reminiscent of a cat choking on a lug nut.

He was likened favorably to Rudolph Giuliani; unlike the former mayor, however, Grady had no political aspirations.