Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Styles

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

Fred Hoyle

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

Fred Rogers

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

Fred Rogers

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Fred Rogers

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

Fred Rogers

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

Fred Rogers

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Frank Herbert

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Frank Herbert

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

George Hamilton

One works in this business - if one works. You do different types of movies.

George H. W. Bush

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

H. R. Giger

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

Ha-Joon Chang

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

Gus Van Sant

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

Gus Van Sant

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

Graham Moore

Stay Weird, Stay Different.

Jim Broadbent

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Jim Butcher

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

Jim Butcher

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Jesse Ventura

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

Jessica Alba

Actors are pulled in so many different directions that unless you both are absolutely into it through thick and thin and completely sure about each other, it's just hard. I've decided I'll never date an actor again.

Jazmine Sullivan

The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.

Klaus Kinski

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Myles Munroe

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Mohsin Hamid

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

Milo Ventimiglia

We're all different, and there are things we're self-conscious about, but I saw that, and I don't know...

Milton Friedman

What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

Milton Friedman

Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.

Milton Friedman

Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

Mike Singletary

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

Nathan Fillion

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

Keira Knightley

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

Kathleen Wynne

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge