Quotes About Apples And Oranges

#1. 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

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

Josh Silver

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

John Elway

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

Red Barber

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Brittany Cavallaro

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

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

Jack Horner

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

Cyd Charisse

#16. I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

Emilia Clarke

#17. Nothing I do is princely since I met you

Eloisa James

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

Austin Kleon

#19. Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Joe Posnanski

#20. 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

#21. I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

Tiger Woods

#22. This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

Felix Baumgartner

#23. 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

#24. He thought for a second, then spun to Clara. 'Did you say something cruel to the TARDIS while I was getting changed?'
'No! Of course not!'
'Did you call her fat?'
'What?'
'Because she's not fat. She's just bigger on the inside.

Tommy Donbavand

#25. 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

#26. There's a time to talk and a time for silence.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#27. Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

Madeleine L'Engle

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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