Comparison Quote by Wallace Stevens

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of…

— Samuel Johnson

“If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.”

— Robert Fulghum

It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held…

— Robert Fulghum

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid…

— David Ogilvy

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and…

— George Ayittey

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal…

— Jaron Lanier

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel…

— Fran Kranz

“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

— Anton Chekhov

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

— Benjamin Disraeli

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

— Edward Abbey

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days,…

— Washington Irving