Apples To Oranges Sayings

#1. I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

John Grisham

#2. If a symmetry between electrons and electron neutrinos is like comparing apples to oranges, trying to connect fermions with bosons is like comparing bananas to orangutans.

Sean Carroll

#3. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.

Forrest Curran

#4. Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Reed Hastings

#5. Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Dennis Moore

#6. We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

#7. It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

Red Barber

#8. I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

John Elway

#9. This my personal death? -
That my lungs be failing
To inhale the breath
Others are exhaling?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#10. Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.

Graham Parke

#11. I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

Dennis Quaid

#12. Human beings, however, were different from apples and oranges: The flavor of the peel did not reliably predict the taste of the pulp.

Dean Koontz

#13. If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

Annalee Newitz

#14. When in doubt, take the next step.

Regina Brett

#15. I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining; other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.

Maeve Binchy

#16. Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#17. Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Rick Riordan

#18. Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

Mariska Hargitay

#19. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. If everybody's wondering about apples, go wonder about oranges.

Austin Kleon

#20. The people closest to him had learned to accept this absence,to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being.

Paul Auster

#21. I was never a girl who thought about getting married. Being in a relationship wasn't my priority.

Susan Downey

#22. Her killer wrote a note on that stationary."
"A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

J.D. Robb

#23. To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Josh Silver

#24. Marvel and Disney and all the other superhero movies have to stay within this box and this is an opportunity to jump outside that box. To be the apple among oranges, and really embrace it. So, in terms of us getting what we wanted and what we originally wrote, we largely stayed consistent to that.

Paul Wernick

#25. You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.

Jennifer Nettles

#26. Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.

Alex Berenson

#27. What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

Jason Alexander

#28. It's like comparing apples and oranges; they're both delicious.

Cyd Charisse

#29. Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Jack Horner

#30. We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to make something we could push further and since this is a co-production, it seemed like the perfect time to create something that felt native to Chinese audiences.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#31. It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Sam Shepard

#32. People think six is a great many, when it's children ... they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

E. Nesbit

#33. Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Stephen King

#34. Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
To catch all feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.

Charles Churchill

#35. If only
you could have witnessed how
much I have changed: sit alone
in a disused theatre and feel what
I have felt, see how the world has
transformed me, like the metamorphosis
of a caterpillar.

Kiera Woodhull

#36. The two things are like apples and oranges, Annie. People who tell stories usually can't write stories.

Stephen King

#37. Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn't like apples mixing with oranges - it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores.

Seanan McGuire

#38. I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#39. The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.

Brittany Cavallaro