Comparable Quotes

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.