Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.

Psy

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.

Preston Manning

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Poppy Montgomery

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Nelson Mandela

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

Nelson Mandela

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Nelson Mandela

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

Nelson Mandela

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

Nelly Furtado

I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

Nelly

Your hater is your future fan in a way. Cause when it's different they don't really take to it at first, but after you look back on it you get a chance to reflect on it.

Rachel Maddow

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

Nia Long

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

Niccolo Machiavelli

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Noam Chomsky

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

Noam Chomsky

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

Noam Chomsky

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back.

Noam Chomsky

Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.

Gertrude Stein

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

Gertrude Stein

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

Gertrude Stein

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

Gertrude Stein

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

Jim Jefferies

Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Jeremy Paxman

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

Jeremy Piven

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

Jeremy Renner

I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy.

Glenn Close

As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

Glenn Beck

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

Glenn Beck

We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.

Gillian Anderson

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.