Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Thomas

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

Mark Teixeira

I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.

Marilyn French

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Petra Stunt

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

Peter Drucker

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

Martin Scorsese

I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.

Marlee Matlin

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

Marlene Dietrich

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Marisha Pessl

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

Marisha Pessl

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

Marissa Mayer

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Marjane Satrapi

Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

Maria Sharapova

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

Megan Gallagher

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Megan McCafferty

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Sherwin B. Nuland

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.

Nina Bawden

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

Nigella Lawson

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

Nikita Khrushchev

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

Nicolas Berggruen

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

Nicolas Roeg

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Nick Vujicic

Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.

Nick Vujicic

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

Nick Hanauer

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

Nick Frost

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Nora Roberts

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

Myrtle Reed

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

N. T. Wright

There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"

Monica Lewinsky

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

Mike Murdock

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.