#relative

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #relative




It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.


Daniel Baldwin


#blessings #bright #difficult #great #had

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.


Dave Barry


#biological #cells #despite #directions #egg

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.


Peter Bart


#became #corporations #hollywood #irritant #minor

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.


Jennifer Beals


#character #cliche #decent #find #i

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.


Jeff Bezos


#big #businesses #characterized #companies #costs

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?


Abraham Pais


#cited #course #everyone #frequencies #fundamental

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.


Maurice Ravel


#am #best #composers #enormously #everything

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.


J. Philippe Rushton


#blacks #britain #canada #caribbean #iq

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.


Bertrand Russell


#earth #first #kinds #matter #near

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.


Georg Simmel


#antagonistic #circle #circles #closed #contemporary