Quotes About Comparison

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.

A man should smell better than his country

But people are not butterflies, right. People are, well, more important than butterflies. We have opposable thumbs, hello. You can't possibly compare the sanctity of a human's life with that of a butterfly. In our culture you can and, indeed, must quantify sanctity, and butterflies have less than people.

She understood then in a way she never had before what it meant to find the one against whom all others would forever be judged. The one for whom there would be no comparison.

For example, to a viewer who has never seen an actual atomic reactor, what they are sensing can be described as a teapot, both of which are hot and 'cook'.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

If you can't go to Hollywood You don't have to cry; Clark Gable is good looking But so am I.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

was sometimes good to revisit what you were so that you could compare it to what you had become.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Your own toothache always hurts more than someone else's broken leg.

take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Nothing is more comforting than the weaknesses of persons obviously superior to oneself.

Of course, like all over-simple classifications of this type, the dichotomy becomes, if pressed, artificial, scholastic and ultimately absurd. But if it is not an aid to serious criticism, neither should it be rejected as being merely superficial or frivolous: like all distinctions which embody any degree of truth, it offers a point of view from which to look and compare, a starting-point for genuine investigation.

Can a country's people be better than its planes?

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.