Famous Quotes & Sayings

LL Cool J

Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.

Mark Hopkins

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

John Armstrong

When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is possible that we could purchase some things from them on a spot basis. But that wouldn't be much compared to the way things were.

John Gay

What he was doing is unrecognizable compared to what I do on a day-to-day basis.

We're still fortunate to have low gas prices compared to the rest of the world,

We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent this year compared to 30 percent last year, ... But by the second half of the year, the economy may brighten, earnings comparisons are easier and we could start to see an easier tech tape.

George Murphy

We're getting back to the normal range as compared to last year,

Throughout Florida, house prices are up dramatically. The question is: Are ours up higher compared to salaries?, ... I suspect they might be because we are a low-salary county.

This was a slow-paced game compared with what we played on Monday. We missed some shots that I don't think we should be missing at this point in the season ... (but) I liked some of the looks we had defensively.

Jermaine Jackson

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

Jose Barroso

We have a really urgent problem with our deficit, especially compared with the United States, in science, research and innovation.

We have a pretty young team so we think it's going to be a month before we're at where we want. It might be too late, but that's our goal. Compared to the past, we have a lot of more speed. But the trade off is that we are inexperienced.

We have just raised the production number for this year compared to what was planned.

This program will have little or no impact on rates compared to what ratepayers would otherwise pay to support the renewable energy standard, but will greatly diversify the overall program by including distributed solar power.

Kim Jee-woon

I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.

Kristin Gore

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.

We hope we can double the growth rate, compared to the industry's.

The real dilemma they have is future reserve growth. Shell isn't up to the game compared with BP.

We used to talk about open systems compared to very proprietary systems like the AS/400 where you could only get it from one vendor. It just isn't the same type of discussion any more.

Scott Aukerman

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

Lucy Punch

That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you.

Miranda Hart

I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.

Gore Vidal

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Arnold Palmer

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

Pete Domenici

The only reasons to vote will be yes or no on ANWR, not Medicare or anything else, so maybe the House will have the votes for it, as compared with a vote for a mixture.

Bill Parcells

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

Allen Boyd

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

We do better with the market that we have given to us than -- I could start naming teams: Houston, Dallas and some of the other large-market teams -- when you consider what we generate out of our market compared to what they generate out of theirs.

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out

There are a tiny number of mobile-phone viruses compared to the threat on the Windows platform.

Courteney Cox

Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.