Best 209 quotes in «compare quotes» category

I come from theater, originally, and I've worked in many theaters where you make no money, whatsoever. If you got 3,000 people to see your production, it was great. So, I'm always about the work and I always want to strive for making the best story possible. I don't get hung up on trying to compare myself.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

I don't compare myself to Lil Kim. I'm not doing anything in comparison with any girls. I'm doing Nicki Minaj.

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

I'm not actually an arrogant guy. It's just that, truthfully, nobody else can really compare to me.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

I never compare myself to anybody. I don't look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I'm happy with what I've accomplished in boxing.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?

I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you!... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

It's difficult to compare coaches.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.