Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Timothy Simons

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Tony Fabrizio

The fractures were always there. The difference was the White House was always able to hold them in line because of perceived power, ... After Tuesday's election, it's 'Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff.'

Rob Schelling

That's the difference between a good and great player, and those guys are great players. When you can do that on your own, when other teams know about you and they're keying on you and you can still score, that shows what type of player they are.

Matt Watson

It makes a huge difference in the service we can offer. We can say it's a 15-minute drive time and we pay a premium to say that.

Bowen Sargent

It is really a thin line, and it's that way every tournament, the difference between finishing third place and sometimes even ninth or 10th. Ten shots, which sounds like a lot, but when you are talking about five guys over three days, you're talking about less than a shot a round. It is razor thin.

Charles Caleb

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Nabil Sha'ath

He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.

Dean Karnazes

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Amber Benson

Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way.

Amartya Sen

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

Christopher Moore

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

Angelina Jolie

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

Angelina Jolie

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

Andrew Cohen

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

Irwin Cohen

Purchases aren't so much 'needs-driven', ... People say, 'I want it.'

Irene Cara

The rumors emanated from people who are in a position of power.

Ed Wade

I've talked to players before about - you can't turn this around. It has to be about the fans. People have a right to boo.

Sally Thompson

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Charlie Green

I've never seen this like this before, people are not so much worried about the price, just getting the fuel.

Tom Burns

I've never seen the people who own DRS.

Karen Miller

It was too complicated for people to get.

Janet Belsky

These shows are so right psychologically they have to do people a lot of good.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,