"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare."
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"When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered."
"I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous."
"I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities."
"Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable."
"I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself."
"Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is."
"There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter."
"If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist."
"The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks."
"I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print."
"I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes."