Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

Jonathan Martin

It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

Jonathan Haidt

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

Jonah Goldberg

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

Jon Stewart

At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want to do The Daily Show and I'd love to turn it into an abstract musical.' I like the format and the chance to satirize the news.

Kate Bosworth

I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.

Justin Timberlake

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

Julie Delpy

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion. It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

Judith McNaught

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Judith Martin

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Phil McGraw

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Pervez Musharraf

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Peter Marshall

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

R. A. Salvatore

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

Prince Philip

Can you tell the difference between them?

Phillips Brooks

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in, Him who has released us.

Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Mickey Rivers

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

Naveen Andrews

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.

Naveen Jain

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

Paul Davies

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Patrick Collison

I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

Paolo Bacigalupi

At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.

Oscar Pistorius

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Paul McCartney

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Paul Valery

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Mary Oliver

Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

Mary Doria Russell

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

Marty Feldman

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Martin Chemnitz

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

James M. Barrie

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.