Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Mine is better than ours.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

There is no gambling like politics.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Too much TV hurts movies.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?