Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert FrostIs 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?
George EliotThe 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.
Salvador DaliThe difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles BukowskiWhen women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. MenckenYou’re beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest HemingwayThe opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MenckenParticularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.
Elon MuskI am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.
Jurgen KloppMadonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.
Lady GagaExcept during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard ShawThe faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard ShawOf Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander PopeWho is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
Babe RuthAccording to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.
Abby Lee MillerIf you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
Brian EnoMine is better than ours.
Benjamin FranklinWe judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Brene BrownToo much TV hurts movies.
Elvis PresleyThis country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will RogersMusic is like film to me.
The WeekndIf I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.
Stephen HawkingIt’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘
Bill GatesWhy would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma BombeckIn some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
Noam ChomskyAs long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar WildeI hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.
Abby Lee MillerSocialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard ShawThe more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will RogersIt’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.
Lando NorrisDon’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Jordan PetersonAs a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.
Lando NorrisBaldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston ChurchillA majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin DisraeliThe Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.
Jerry SeinfeldFebruary is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.
Hunter S. ThompsonI love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
Angelina JolieYou 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!‘
RihannaNoise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark TwainPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyDuring most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Kurt VonnegutMy books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainIn praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Friedrich NietzscheJust as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.
George BestWhat difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.
Bad BunnyOne of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark TwainThaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David ThoreauThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard ShawThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. EisenhowerChristianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
John LennonIn the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.
Noam ChomskySee how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.
Lando NorrisWomanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice WalkerColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanIf you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Steven WrightWe’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John LennonEarth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
Stephen HawkingPeople are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
Bill Gates