Famous quotes containing the word compared:
“The cigar-box which the European calls a lift needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the mans patent purgeit works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else, an animals incomplete compared to a person ... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.”
—Georges Bataille (18971962)
“Whats breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (18981956)