Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia Lunch

I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.

Lucille Ball

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

Louis Farrakhan

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

Lorraine Bracco

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

Lorna Luft

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

Michel de Montaigne

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Michael Nichols

There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

Michael Nesmith

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Jim Hightower

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Jim Henson

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

Jenny Slate

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

Jeffrey Kluger

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jennifer O'Neill

When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three holes in a bucket of water. The same amount of water is going to flow out the holes whether you let it flow or you shake the bucket. The difference is the amount of turmoil on the inside of the bucket!

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.

Jean Houston

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

James Caan

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

James C. Collins

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

James Agee

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

Jacqueline Novogratz

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Jackie Gleason

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

Jackie Mason

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

Gary Zukav

I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.

Jason Mraz

And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.

Hillary Clinton

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

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.