Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

Oprah Winfrey

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Olivia Thirlby

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

Oliver North

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

Margaret Atwood

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Kevin Mitnick

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

Ken Paulson

That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?

Margaret Atwood

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

B. F. Skinner

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Asghar Farhadi

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

Avi Arad

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Bernie Siegel

If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

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.

Pope Francis

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

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.

Monica Bellucci

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

Pearl S. Buck

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Terry Pratchett

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

Terry Pratchett

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.