Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greta Gerwig

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

Herman Kahn

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Herbie Hancock

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Herman Melville

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Henry David Thoreau

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

H. L. Mencken

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

Jill Scott

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

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.

J. William Fulbright

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

Isaac Asimov

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

Isaac Asimov

If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?

Isaac Asimov

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Isaac Asimov

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

Irene Rosenfeld

How you manage change can make all the difference.

Hugh Jackman

When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.

Horatio Nelson

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Herbert Marcuse

Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.

Evelyn Underhill

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

Eva Zeisel

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

Evan Esar

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

Evan Esar

The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.

Estelle Ramey

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

Estella Warren

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

Esther Hicks

If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

Esther Hicks

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Ernest Hemingway

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

Ethel Merman

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Erwin Chemerinsky

Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.

Erwin Rommel

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

Eriq La Salle

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I dont want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So thats a big difference.