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The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my life. No question.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

I can't compare family to athletics.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.