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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. -- Charles Baudelaire
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. -- M. H. Abrams
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. -- Susan Orlean
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. -- Doris Humphrey
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. -- Robyn Davidson
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. -- Claire Tomalin
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. -- Mike Birbiglia
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. -- Brenda Ueland
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. -- Richard G. Scott
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them. -- Baron de Montesquieu
If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience. -- Jerry Seinfeld
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. -- John Rhys-Davies
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it. -- Alice Walker
Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood. -- Ginger Rogers
And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world. -- C.P. Cavafy
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning. -- Gerry Spence
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago. -- Jack Horner
I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends -- Neal A. Maxwell
I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached. -- Meir Soloveichik
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife. -- Felicity Huffman
I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course. -- James Salter
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. -- Ambrose Bierce
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty. -- Charlie Chaplin
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others. -- James E. Faust
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth. -- Mariah Carey
Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being. -- Pope John Paul II
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by. -- Orson Welles
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. -- Buddha
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness. -- Hermann Hesse
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin. -- Coco Chanel
I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass. -- Gertrude Jekyll
There remains an experience of incomparable value. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ronaldo has been compared to the incomparable George Best -- David Pleat
What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil") -- Julian Hawthorne
Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. -- Edward Carpenter
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph? -- George Sand
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. -- Paul Valery
The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor. -- Champfleury
Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique. -- Rajneesh
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. -- Rajneesh
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. -- Daniel Barenboim
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. -- Rajneesh
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions. -- Zhuangzi
We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior. -- J. I. Packer
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact. -- Susanna Clarke
Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker's incomparable legacy. -- Bob Buford
Had PoincarÃ© been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. -- Eric Temple Bell
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. -- William Maxwell
Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind. -- Morgan Freeman
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life. -- Francis Frangipane
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable. -- James Lipton
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting. -- Claude Debussy
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself. -- Jacqueline Auriol
To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that! -- Laozi
The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a texture and a richness to the 35 format that's incomparable. -- Daryl Wein

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