Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy West

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Bill McKibben

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Beth Moore

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Beth Moore

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

Bob Marley

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Bill Wyman

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Bill Vaughan

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.

Bill Vaughan

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

Bill Vaughan

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Bob Hartley

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

Bill Frist

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

Betty Friedan

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Bennett Cerf

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

Bill Gates

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

Bill Gates

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

We found something that really split the difference right down the middle.

Kemmons Wilson

Work only a half a day; it makes no difference which half -- it can be either the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

We refer to them as the heart of the hospice. They all make a difference in people's lives.

We're getting better at handling pressure. That's the difference between my team today and two, three weeks ago. They did a better job of recognizing down the court.

John Powell

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

Charlotte Rampling

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

Charley Reese

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Aidan Turner

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

Ai Weiwei

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

Bill Phillips

There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

Bill Richardson

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Eriq La Salle

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Edward M. Lerner

Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

We did give up some second and third shots. (Mercer) shot the lights out and played well, but they didn't do anything we didn't expect them to. The difference was we didn't handle it very well.

John McCarthy

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Jane Austen

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Jamie Zawinski

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.