Quotes About Comparison

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

So then the success tax comes from envy, and the shit tax comes from exploitation... The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

expected Noa to do the same thing as Mozasu.

She was more cute than pretty, more pretty than beautiful.

Her face was soft now, damp from the steam of my bath and the heat of her news. Her eyebrows were as white as cornsilk, her eyelashes clear. My sister had a certain pale, bright beauty, while I was an almost blonde, a shadowy hybrid. Ginnie was willowy and golden, I was shorter and freckled. I imagined our in utero tug-of-war. How she had seized all those pale, paternal Scandinavian genes, pulled at those chromosomes until they stretched like taffy.

I know a small part of you thinks you could've ended up with Natalie Portman if you had played things a little differently. That's nice. You can have that. That's not hurting anybody.

Um, Mindy is much less like Elizabeth Bennet than she is a combination of Carrie Bradshaw and Eric Cartman.

I laugh thinking about if they ever tried to do "Who Wore It Best?" for men's magazines. They wouldn't, because no one would care. Men don't care which men looked better in the same clothes because it's so obviously a huge waste of time. It's also why they don't have astrology sections in men's magazines.

Is Dwight really like that in real life?" to which I respond: "Oh, no, Rainn isn't like Dwight. Dwight is an angel next to Rainn. Rainn is a demon.

When Your Boyfriend Fits into Your Jeans and Other Atrocities

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

Every average-looking American is just a treadmill and six laser hair-removal sessions away from looking like Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively (who are a great couple, by the way).

They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.

I like to think of myself as the Rod Blagojevich of television.

Lots of stupid people were skinny, and yet I couldn't do this incredibly simple thing they could do with seeming ease.

When Your Boyfriend Fits into Your Jeans and Other Atrocities The

like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison. Am I normal? Am I doing the correct trendy cardio exercises? Am I reading the right books? Is gluten still lame? Is soap cool again, or is body wash still the way to go? It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you.

There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character.

Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight," I told myself.

Like mother, like daughter? What a truly terrifying thought.

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

Is it terrible to take solace in finding oneself better off than the huddled masses?