Apples And Oranges Quotes

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

  John Elway

  Apples, Orange, Mind

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• 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

  Two, Apples, Orange

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

  Stephen King

  Book, Apples, Orange

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Happiness, Apples

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• You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Lying, Taken

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, God, Apples

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• 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

  Thinking, Apples, Orange

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• 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

  Apples, Orange, Genius

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

  Jack Horner

  Apples, Orange, Machines

  The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for every man and woman and child, with the doctrine related to marriage.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Men, Apples

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• 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

  Mistake, Apples, Orange

  "Steve Jobs 'Saturday Night Live' Skit Hits Web" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2011.

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• There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

  Max Lucado

  Apples, Orange, Mixing

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.

  Joe Budden

  Dream, Crazy, Apples

  Source: djbooth.net

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• There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Past, Order

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

  Red Barber

  Baseball, Apples, Orange

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• 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

  Jobs, Apples, Orange

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• I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you!... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious.

  Cyd Charisse

  Apples, Orange, Compare

  "The Two of Us (as Told to Dick Kleiner)". Book by Cyd Charisse, Tony Martin, and Dick Kleiner, 1976.

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