Equivalent Quotes

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

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

Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.