Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Brock

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

The overall relationship is strong, but trade and economic ties have lagged behind, especially compared to China-India trade.

Brian Harvey

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

Valentina Tereshkova

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

The 10-year notes are reasonable to get in at these yield levels compared with a month ago.

Fabio Capello

We have an extremely competitive roster in terms of quality and quantity. And compared to last year we know each other better and have all been together from the first day of training camp.

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.

Don Murray

We were hit with this flood a year ago as a result of Hurricane Ivan and compared to what those folks went through we had nothing, of course we were devastated at the time, but compared to them, we just had nothing.

Utilizing a large-cap value fund, or a small-cap international fund, allows you to better measure your fund's performance compared with its peers,

Poe Ballantine

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

Mercedes has the potential to earn a lot more profit in the next years compared to this year because of the restructuring.

Michigan's threshold had been consistently under the poverty line. The threshold in Michigan is slipping compared to the poverty line.

Whoever succeeds him will be compared to Welch. He's kind of like Henry Ford, or Mozart in music.

Brian Urlacher

We haven't won any games in the playoffs yet. If we can win, I'll definitely be happy to be compared to them.

Wisconsin's labor market continues to show healthy gains in 2006 in all of our metropolitan areas, with decreasing unemployment for the second month in a row when compared with 2005.

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.

Juice is going to be great for the program. He's a star recruit and we're all going to compete. I'm going to help him out. But I feel confident where I am compared to last year. I'm going into the summer just worrying about myself.

Samuel Johnson

It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better.

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

I think this summer was a little off compared with previous years,

Nastia Liukin

It feels great, even though I had a mistake on the floor. Mostly all my routines are new compared to the World Championships, so I think I just need a little more time to get consistent.

Jake Abel

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

Robert Maillet

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

Vera Zvonareva

We're all upset. I think my tennis match doesn't mean anything compared to what happened.

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.

We finally played them like we knew what we were doing. They were very surprised at how well we played on the field compared to the last game with them.

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.

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.