Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie B. Hawkins

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

LeBron James

Those guys don't realize, I'm a football player first. I'm going to lay down for a little bit, regroup and get back up. I'm used to taking those hits. They're nothing compared to football hits.

Amy Vanderbilt

We received 4.4 inches of rain, compared to a 10-year mean of 2.14 inches.

Yes, the demand for space at independent schools is a very real issue, especially at the more 'well-known' or 'prestigious' schools. The sector is also growing very rapidly, with around 2 000 registered schools in 2004 compared to 550 in 1990,

We executed really well compared to their quickness and speed.

I think if you compare quarterbacks -- who are the leaders of their offensive unit -- to how the team is doing and not so much how many passes they throw or how many passes they complete, I think the team success tells you a lot about the quality of the quarterback,

I think just to look at ratings compared to past years, there's a lot more to the story.

I think litigation is not getting any worse in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom and in Europe, (liability potential) is infinitesimal compared to the United States.

Mack Brown

John's a great coach, ... He's done a great job wherever he's been. But Steve Spurrier's from Johnson City, Tenn., and Lloyd Carr's from Tennessee, so you can compare me to them, too.

You just can't compare the impact of a large number of sales of flashlights, which may cost $2 to $4, with lost sales, for example, of hundreds of pairs of shoes, each costing $50 to $200.

Darius Rucker

We realized instantly it was going to be like that. People wanted to compare it to what we'd d done before. But are we going to complain about selling 16 million records? I don't think so.

For the past month, gasoline prices have fallen as inventories of gas and crude oil continued to show a healthy surplus compared to last year. Motorists can expect to see relative price stability for the next couple of weeks.

If I had to compare myself to Baryshnikov, I'd give up and take up carpentry.

I am not quite sure of that. It is difficult to compare different historical situations.

Mark Richt

I don't think we compare quite to the accomplishments they had. That was definitely the greatest four-year period in Georgia history. ... We can't match the three SEC championships and the national championship.

Jared Bernstein

However, a far larger gap exists when we compare net worth: minorities' net worth was about 27 percent of whites, about half the size of the income ratio.

Doug Wilson

I compare this to a go-cart race. It's go out there, race and have fun. If you run out of gas, that's no fun.

I compare it to sleeping on a soft mattress,

I don't like to compare the score in other games. Momentum is a key. Every sport is a game of momentum, especially lacrosse.

Sherwood Schwartz

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.

Ben Roethlisberger

People are always trying to compare quarterbacks and that's tough to do because everybody is his own quarterback and own person. Tom's obviously a phenomenal quarterback, player and person, so that's an honor to be compared to him.

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Overall, if you compare it to January it has been incredibly peaceful.

Overall, I'd say there's a 20 percent increase in sales this week compared to the rest of December.

Brewster Kahle

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Bill Hader

You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

Tika Sumpter

I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.

Pete Carroll

We don't have that number (of touches) in mind. One of the guys you could compare him to his Marshall Faulk, in that offense of the Rams. We'd be lucky if he could be like that.

Dick Bennett

We are seeing in the numbers he is ahead, but the depth of his support is not as great as it could be, so I think what is going to happen is, they're going to take a look at him and compare him to Gore and see where it all plays out.

Joe Torre

We're not trying to rush him to get ready for any particular date. But compare this year to last year and it's night and day for him.

My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

Mark Zuckerberg

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

Mark Ronson

My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.