Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Birbiglia

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.

It's a small piece compared to what people are looking at down south. If I knew something I could do to go load up and help people, I'd rather be doing that than practicing.

I try to get through each day just by remembering that what we're doing is a minor sacrifice compared to what workers are going through. We're just doing a little to help them a lot.

There's a very long transition for this species. Milk is easier to digest, especially compared to bamboo, and is more nutritious.

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief Is only a shadow When compared with the pain Of never risking love.

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

It means we're going to be off to a pretty slow start compared with last year.

It's a little uncommon, but it does happen. It's not one of those things that we issue every day, compared to flash flooding.

Dee Brown

You're always going to be compared to last year's team whatever you do, ... You can't do that. It's going to be a different team and it's going to be fun to watch because everybody's so new.

You name the state or the drug company, and they will all have representatives there. We're the only group from West Virginia that is going. We might be small potatoes compared to others, but we think our presence will be felt.

David Morse

Young urbanites spend a lot of money--a lot more than they have. This generation is very, very materialistic compared to prior generations. It's not about spirituality and self-realization like the '60s. It's much more about having stuff as an expression of who you are as a person.

I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.

Rob Thurman

I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy.

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.

All of the songs are excellent. It's been compared to the Rocky Horror show, and honestly I think it's a better score.

All of our major businesses, namely semiconductor, telecom and LCD are seeing definite improvement compared with the second quarter.

The hurt is the same, but here the people are gone, ... In New York, you could see the hurt on the people's faces. Here, there are no faces. It's abandoned. Compared to Sept. 11, the scale is huge. Just the smell of it, the damage that the water does, it's amazing.

These are job cuts, but they're happening in a rather humane way compared to what could have occurred. They were going to happen anyway. Now those people have more of a cushion with which to make adjustments in their lives.

These figures prove how much more people understand the importance of recycling compared with just four years ago,

This hunt, compared with what my parents went through, was nothing. There are moments that leave their indelible mark, but I'm alive.

The flows are getting bigger. We're sending more workers and we're sending more teachers compared with entertainers. So when they remit, it's bigger.

Richard Burr

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to ... New Orleans.

A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.

The level of concern has declined, especially compared to a decade ago. And the concern about the loss of jobs, we are definitely correlating to the unemployment rate.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man.

The CS5343 provides higher performance than the CS5330A/1A yet it is smaller and more cost effective compared to the CS5340/41.

The competition is very tough compared to what we run into during the regular season.