Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Truett Cathy

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

S. Truett Cathy

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

Ruth Pitter

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.

Ruth Wilson

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Roy H. Williams

The value of an item—in the mind of a consumer—is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Ron Perlman

None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.

Roland Emmerich

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

Roger Zelazny

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

Susan Sarandon

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

Susan Glaspell

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Sunny Murray

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Suge Knight

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

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

Studs Terkel

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Rudy Giuliani

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

Rudy Giuliani

Talk and action are two different things.

Sandra Cisneros

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

Ruth Messinger

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

Ruth Negga

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

Ruggiero Ricci

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

Robert Jeffress

Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.

Robyn

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Roberto Clemente

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

Roberto Unger

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.

Wesley Clark

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.

Toni Collette

I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

Tommy Wiseau

Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.

Steve Forbert

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Sterling Beaumon

I don't really get recognized for Lost anymore or even the Disney movie I did because I was so much younger. I really looked so different. I've really grown a lot.

Stephen Daldry

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

Stephen Covey

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?