Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Lerner

Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.

Gregory David Roberts

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

Ian Rush

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

Howard Finster

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Hannah Arendt

The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

Gina Lollobrigida

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

Gillian Flynn

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gerhard Richter

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

Hassan Nasrallah

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

Griffin Dunne

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

James D. Watson

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

Jamaica Kincaid

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

Jacques Derrida

In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

Jennifer Beals

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.