Equivalent Quotes - page 11

If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking. (Dwight Schultz)
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. View quote
Eric Liu
I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size. View quote
James Sinegal
Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood. View quote
John Collison
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. View quote
Joseph Hume
One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts. View quote
Joseph Prince
A relationship book I once read told women to use the word fun whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me. View quote
Julie Klausner
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information. View quote
James Dyson
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting. View quote
Larry Elder
My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune. View quote
Marin Ireland
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. (Malcolm Cowley)
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century. View quote
Adam Davidson
Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels. View quote
Archer John Porter Martin
Too much may be the equivalent of none at all. View quote
Lee Loevinger
For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. View quote
Myriam Miedzian
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting. View quote
Peter Blair Henry
I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture. View quote
Peter Wright
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. View quote
Phil Ramone
On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things. View quote
Patti Stanger
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain. (Rashida Jones)
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone. View quote
S. Jay Olshansky
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom. View quote
Sloane Crosley
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. View quote
Steve Albini
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix. View quote
Charles Krauthammer