Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the equivalent of trying to sedate a dinosaur.

This is the equivalent of the Sweet 16 for the students.

Porter Goss

This is the equivalent of the liberation of Paris in the Second World War,

Haley Barbour

To me looting is about the equivalent of grave robbing, ... We're not going to stand for it.

ISPs do the equivalent of pumping out raw sewage into your home. You wouldn't expect to have to filter your own water, so why do home users have to filter their own data?

Robert Harris

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Adam Baldwin

We've had a long ride back from a cancellation of a short-lived television series to the release of a major motion picture. I don't know if there's any other story equivalent to that in Hollywood history,

We feel like the lawsuit was filed prematurely. They don't take possession of the facility until June 1, and the city's stance has always been not to worry, a functional equivalent will be available.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Rebel Wilson

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

Andrew Bogut

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

It is really disappointing and that fine is the equivalent of three weeks wages for our total squad.

It's the equivalent of throwing a 10-foot rope to someone in a 40-foot hole.

It's the equivalent of running a goal-line defense. It makes no sense at all.

Shirley Chisholm

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.

Frank Beamer

I personally like it, ... I think our kids like it. I think it's the equivalent of Monday night football in the pros. You're the only game on or you're the most important game on TV.

Something roughly equivalent in features could be worth more or less in a different setting,

the equivalent of someone standing on street corners, turning in jaywalkers, and then getting the fine money.

These are markets where overreaction follows overreaction. It's manic or it's depressive. It never gets even. You have the equivalent of a Dow that moves 4,000 or 5,000 points in a month.

Avery Johnson

And I think he wants another shot, because he was really disappointed that he was unable to play in the playoffs. We missed him tremendously. That's just like the Spurs losing Robert Horry. That's the equivalent to what Keith does for us.

Michael Cunningham

A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made fabulous simply by who and what the person is.