Famous Quotes & Sayings

The times are faster there, so it's hard to compare times course to course.

What we are doing is nothing compared to the suffering of Iraqis. We hope that our government will wake up to the fact that thousands of innocent people are dying because of their political ambitions.

What this project is costing the county is pennies compared to what it will generate over the next five to 10 years in property taxes and impact fees.

What this means is every teacher's salary will increase by at least $4,100 a year. By 2009, compared to the salaries they're receiving today, they will get at least $4,100.

Matthew Wright

What are the ratings of Parkinson on ITV1 compared to those when it was on BBC1? I really do hope they're worse just to spite ITV. I hate them so much.

What the e-mail referred to is that if you compare Vioxx to a traditional pain reliever, you'll see a difference in clotting events. What he meant was that a misinterpretation of that difference would kill the drug, ... That e-mail was speculating that people would misinterpret it (the trial) as being a problem with Vioxx.

We lost five seniors, and three of them were starters. I've tried really hard not to compare this team to that one.

We look like we went from a VW to a Ferrari. The way we're moving up and down the floor, compared to what was happing when Mike was out, is incredible. Practice looks completely different.

Pope John

What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my heart feels, and your hearts feel, at this moment.

What's going on with short-term deficit is minor compared to the problem that is looming. But if they're ignoring the big problem, it's not surprising they're ignoring the near-term issues.

We'll have more product launches in 2006 compared with 2005.

Jonathan Frakes

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

Anne Lamott

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

Brian Billick

The problem I see is I don't know who you compare Vince Young to - and I think that makes people uncomfortable. Young is a different breed.

Phil Klay

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.

Kurt Russell

Well, for a nine year old kid to be able to earn $110 in one day compared to $10 for a paper round, the economics were even obvious to a ten year old.

Unfortunately this year there was a great disparity on the home side as compared to the road side.

John Wooden

It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

Jess Walter

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Gabrielle Giffords

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

Terry Anderson

Selling public lands can help reduce the drain on the treasury and give us benchmarks to compare private with public management.

She was surprised and thrilled, but I'm a novice compared to her.

When you compare this team to the last two years, we're mentally stronger. We don't have the physical strength like we did the last two years, but this is the most mentally seasoned team I've been on. We know how to perform in pressure situations. We know how to come back.

When you compare the sentence for Capt. Schweitzer, who was the one who actually destroyed the tape, with the sentence Capt. Ashby received, it's hard to understand the disparity.

When you compare that to the industry multiple of 13.5, these stocks look a little overpriced but they are in good shape.

When you compare our endowment to the benchmarks set by the Council on Postsecondary Education, we are low.

When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.

Obviously, it's a much larger project, and it would be unfair to compare it to the timetables of other universities.

Mike Sherman

Obviously that's three too many penalties. We have to weigh the production of what (Whitticker) is doing compared to what he's giving up. Three pretty important penalties, so I have to consider that. Not to make excuses for a rookie, but he is doing some pretty good things. He knows his assignments, is a pretty physical player. I think he will continue to get better. That doesn't mean we're going to stay with him if this persists.

Revenues in the third quarter of 2005 reflected lower prescription growth and increased competition in key therapeutic markets in the U.S., such as the lipid-lowering market, where the rate of growth in the third quarter declined significantly versus the first half of the year; and the erectile dysfunction market, which has been in decline compared to 2004.

Revenue share for portable devices would be very small compared to this business.

On the ice, I don't even have to look for Paul Daley, I can just feel where he is. He doesn't even need a number out there. He's a great skilled player, but nobody can compare to him in the locker room. If not for him, I don't know if we even get as far as we did.

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.