Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terrible, compared to yesterday. That's about it. I've played four rounds this year, three have been in the wind and I've shot over par every time.

Marcus Aurelius

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The stock is at a premium valuation right now. Compared to its peers, it's got the worst fundamentals.

The star ratings of niche funds are likely to be more volatile. On occasion, they may look exaggerated compared to the category, and you'll have to take them with a grain of salt.

The strength in employment growth and an unexpected jump in consumer credit in January helped push mortgage rates a little higher this week. While long-term interest rates are at the highest level since May of 1998, they are still very affordable, particularly when compared to the 1970s and 1980s.

As people start driving them, they start finding more reasons to use them. They're practical, easy to park and get great gas mileage. I put US$5 worth of gas into mine when it's totally empty, compared to US$50 in my SUV.

Lee Smith

You're talking about guys here who play 25 to 30 games a season compared with 160 in our major leagues. They don't have facilities like we have here. You should have seen them when they got here ? they were taking pictures of the grass on the fields.

This is fairly delayed compared to normal. It just got really super cold.

This is fabulous, fantastic. Compared to when I was in high school, this is so meticulous. The teachers must really have a knack for teaching the kids how to do art.

Francis Collins

This is a pair of programs where the public is the main winner. The genome has been compared to a textbook, and what we're talking about today is an opportunity to learn how to read that textbook in a more precise way.

Jeff Probst

This is our toughest one yet, ... It's fair to say Palau was a vacation compared to this.

Jamie Wyeth

The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.

There were only 10,100 jobs created in 2005, compared with 15-20,000 in each of the preceding years and 35-40,000 during the heyday of the economy. Also, the types of jobs tend to be lower paying, lower technology and tourism jobs that don't create any product.

This is very different, because the equity market is actually about 28 percent overvalued compared to our models right now.

Anything that happened to me was nothing compared to what happened to Nick and the little girl. I'm sorry I interrupted their lives because of the dogs.

As compared to two years ago, we're ahead, ... We've had some things we've had to work through. We had to get everybody on the same page, we had to get them all going in the right direction. And that's what we've done. That creates a good, positive atmosphere.

They go to the net, move the puck well and they're big and strong compared to us. They wore us down.

Daron Malakian

I feel like people have only heard half a record so far. But we like releasing shorter records. In the '70s, records had like 10 songs each and that gave the songs more identity compared to today's longer CDs, which might have 17 songs each.

Joe Horn

I can take you to a spot right now and show you more harsh conditions: People lying on cots, not knowing where their next meal is going to come from, not knowing where they're going to stay. (This) is nothing compared to what they're going through. . . . We're not looking for a pity party here.

Amy Yasbeck

I certainly wouldn't want to be the man who was compared to John Ritter through my eyes.

Ben Johnson

Current opportunities for less-skilled workers to come in legally are laughable when compared with the economic needs.

Tom Danielson

Cycling is very much in an elevated status right now compared to what it was three or four or six years ago.

A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from the November index compared to six points in 2005.

Even after years of smoking cessation, levels of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) are significantly higher in former smokers compared with never-smokers.

Even after years of smoking cessation, levels of atherosclerosis are significantly higher in former smokers compared with never-smokers.

Dave Bautista

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Brad Richards

Even compared to football it seems people are more interested in us.

Federalism doesn't have a lot of traction compared to winning the White House. Federalism is very abstract; the White House is quite concrete.

Fares continue to be competitive when compared to other airports in the eastern Iowa and western Illinois region. March has been an incredibly strong month, and we were in overflow parking for several days due to spring break.

Every time I feel sorry for myself having to do this, I just look at the people who have to go through this every day. They have to live without somebody in their life. Whatever I have to go through is minuscule compared to that.

Everything pales when compared to this. These demonstrations are historic because they surpass in size any of the previous Latino-organized protests, going back to the '50s and '60s.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.