A Quote by Carson McCullers

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers
American - Novelist
February 19, 1917 - September 29, 1967

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

Wendy Mass

Comparing Bollywood and Hollywood is like comparing America's market, roads and economy to ours.

Richa Chadha

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

Boy George

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Ray Comfort

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Jack Horner

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

Romeo Miller

Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.

Jonathan Miles

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Susan Sontag

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Matt Taibbi

More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.

Keerthy Suresh

Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his.

Jackie Mason

When it comes to work, I'm not competitive at all. Having Cara as my baby, I had to learn quite quickly that I couldn't be competitive because I had a sister who meant more to me. And I knew she was going to be brilliant, so I had to become very aware of not comparing.

Poppy Delevingne

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

Zig Ziglar

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Reed Hastings

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

Willow Smith

I've been lucky to have played a lot of women, over the years, especially in the sci-fi genre. All of them are special to me, in different ways, and I hate comparing them because it's like comparing people. They're different.

Laura Vandervoort

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