Compared Quotes

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

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

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

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.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

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

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.