Versus Quotes

• Traditionally, Batavia versus Sycamore has been a dogfight out here, and tonight, it was no different. We had a great crowd here, they had a great crowd here, and I told the kids to embrace it. Not every high school player gets to experience that. This was a state-tournament type of atmosphere.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Versus
  • Batavia
  • Sycamore

• Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Yankees
  • Versus
  • Red Sox

• The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Game
  • Moment
  • Twins

• My own rhetoric is not so ‘us versus them.’ I don’t like fighting.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Fighting
  • Rhetoric
  • Versus

• Currently, differences remain in certain areas of the native API versus the BeOS API which make some things, even common things, not port correctly.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Differences
  • Correctly
  • API

• What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

  

  Elinor Ostrom
  • People
  • Real
  • Rule

• We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.

  

  Anthony Noto
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Stock

• So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Trying
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Quality
  • Everyday
  • Amount

• The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Short Story
  • Decorum
  • Fabliau

• I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Soul
  • Balance
  • Registers

• When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Question
  • Side
  • Versus

• Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Trying
  • Succeed
  • Versus

• When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

  

  Michael Landes
  • Country
  • Jungle
  • South Africa

• I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Balance
  • Lines
  • Bits

• China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

  

  Bill Gates
  • China
  • U.S.
  • Type scenario

• As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • Horses
  • Face value

• The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

  

  Richard Stengel
  • Numbers
  • Museums
  • Corporate

• Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • Problem
  • Confusion
  • Metaphysical

• In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.

  

  Roberto Orci
  • Nature
  • Himself
  • Versus