Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Garlin

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

These planes are essentially real aircraft. Everything you have to do to operate them is comparable to flying a full-scaled airplane; we just stand on the ground to operate it.

We see it as just another lottery game that's comparable to bingo.

Matthew Scully

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Ahmed Zewail

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

We raced some of the hottest programs. We had comparable times and speeds with many of them. We'll be in the mix with a lot of crews.

Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of Javanese and Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence.

For the first five days of this week, Ukraine siphoned off nearly 400 million cubic meters of gas. This is a very large volume, which is comparable to our supplies for Germany for three days.

Brad Martin

Our comparable store sales results for the quarter exceeded those of our traditional and luxury department store peers, ... This performance reflects implementation of our customer-focused strategies.

I've always felt Albuquerque has good basketball, and last year proved that. Albuquerque and El Paso are very comparable in talent. Now it's time to see how we stack up again.

This is an impressive transaction by any real estate standards, ... In terms of dollars invested, it is comparable to the 1999 Merchandise Mart Properties acquisition of Market Square.

Joseph Kanon

This is the great crisis in Western culture; there's nothing comparable to it. How it could have happened, the level of responsibility that people take for it, I think, is still the great issue.

This is not comparable to 2000. If we were talking 3,000 or 4,000 votes, it'd be a big story. But I think the markets will perceive this as a temporary delay of the inevitable.

They're a lot like us. They start four juniors like we do. I'd say we're fairly comparable size-wise and we're fairly comparable speed-wise.

Robert Stack

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

Tom Barrett

They didn't sell (their homes) here and if they would have sold, they couldn't get into anything comparable there in Florida.

I'd say our turnout is comparable to last year's. Maybe between 2,200 and 2,500.

Matt Anderson

Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations.

We should have a comparable season this year. We've worked toward that direction and we hope to continue that way.

This win allows us to go through to the next round. We did a great effort and we hope to defend the title. This team has discipline and good tactics, and its comparable to top European teams. We are well prepared.

Havelock Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry

They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.

The wind resource in the United States is comparable to the oil resource in Saudi Arabia. It's a major strategic national resource we should be making every effort to develop.

This will put industrial (permitting process) on an equitable playing field with residential and will make us more comparable with other regions.

Without the Soviet Union's material base, Russia now is playing the part of a global power comparable to the United States. The current Russian elite shares a Soviet vision of the world ... and it's trying to imitate Soviet diplomatic efforts.

Tiger Woods

I feel it's very comparable to a major championship. The field is not quite as big but they're still just as deep and just as strong.

In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.

J. Taylor

If she could get work in Roanoke comparable to what she could get there, she'd be here. I think that goes for a lot of people. I think we need to provide more upscale jobs to keep our young people in Roanoke.

Richard Hastings

If Wal-Mart's December comparable sales do go up 3 percent, that means they did much better in the last two weeks of the month,

It was loud in there, and really tough for us. That says a lot for Missouri. It's not comparable to the (Nebraska) Coliseum, but it's one of the top places we've played.

It was a good match-up between the two teams. We're comparable to Saranac on a talent level.

David Hawkins

It sounds like there's some comparable numbers there and it's encouraging. It's healthy that it's 15 percent, given that it's very early on in the process of this. I have no doubt that number will go up given increased publicity of this program.

Nancy Carroll

It's always a fine line, but what we try to do is evaluate what other courses within a general 30-mile radius of Ames are charging, on a comparable type of course. Then it's just a sensitivity, where we try to stay really competitive.