Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Shriver

It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.

Jose Cuevas

We have made a difference and I think this will be the same.

Neill Blomkamp

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

Banksy

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

Adam Sandler

I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.

Adam Sandler

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

Angus Young

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

Andy Goldsworthy

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Amy Klobuchar

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Allen Ginsberg

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

Allan Gurganus

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Anthony Jeselnik

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

Andy Andrews

Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.

Andy Andrews

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Andy Andrews

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Andy Andrews

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

Andrea Gibson

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Andrea Bocelli

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

Aaron Allston

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Abbas Kiarostami

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.

Abbas Kiarostami

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Agatha Christie

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

Adam Smith

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Adam Levine

ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.

Adam Michnik

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Adam Lambert

I wanted to look different because I felt different

Adam Grant

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

Ada Lovelace

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Corey Taylor

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Rob Blake

We had a quick one early on but the second one was a major one, it lasted a minute. The big difference in their 5-on-3? They made the play.

Today's increase will make a real difference to the lives of the lowest paid members of the workforce.

Josh Fox

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.