My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
Poppy Z. Brite

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
John Sebastian

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Steve Buscemi

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
Mary Wortley Montagu

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
Albert Pike

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
Antoine Lavoisier

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
Clare Short

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.
Archer J. P. Martin

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.
Emmet Fox

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Cesare Lombroso

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Michael Pollan

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
Marvin Olasky

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
Dixie Lee Ray

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
Phillip E. Johnson

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Frank Herbert