Famous Quotes & Sayings

The only difference between a regular police officer and reserve is I get paid and he doesn't.

Charles Kettering

The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living

Those few precious minutes are the difference between life and death,

We know it might not have prevented every one, but it would have made a significant difference in the number of outages we had in January.

We'll give guys an opportunity. That may be the difference for them being here, or not.

Those kind of things could be the difference between being 4-7 and 7-4. People don't realize how hard it is to win a football game, how many things you have to do well.

Unfortunately, there's a perception that you take in partners because they're well-connected. These people are here because they make a difference for the community.

Derek Jeter

You'd love to be at home but we're not really worried about it, ... It doesn't make any difference where you play. You still have to play well.

Robert Fripp

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

Robert Fripp

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

Robert Fripp

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

Robert Fulghum

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

Robert Fulghum

Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

Robert Fulghum

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

Rita Ora

I've always been into looking different.

Richard Thaler

Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

Richard MacDonald

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

Rene Descartes

There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

Rene Descartes

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Thomas S. Monson

You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

Thomas Sowell

The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.

Thomas Sowell

One of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that we at least know what the Democrats stand for, whether we agree with it or not. But, for Republicans, we have to guess

Thomas Sowell

The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

Thomas Pynchon

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance...

Robert Musil

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Robert Mitchum

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Robert McNamara

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

Robert Heller

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Tony Robbins

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Sally Quinn

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

Sugar Ray Leonard

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it

Stephen Spender

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Stephen Sondheim

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.