Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Klobuchar

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Allen Ginsberg

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

Anthony Jeselnik

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

Andy Andrews

Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.

Andy Andrews

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Andy Andrews

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Andy Andrews

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

Aaron Allston

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Abbas Kiarostami

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Agatha Christie

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

Adam Smith

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Adam Grant

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

Ada Lovelace

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

Alice Walker

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Alice McDermott

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

Anne Lamott

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.

Annie Leibovitz

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Annie Lennox

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

Clay Aiken

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Clay Aiken

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

Clayton Christensen

In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.

Cristina Saralegui

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

Cristina Saralegui

The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.

Constance Baker Motley

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Alexander McCall Smith

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

Alex Van Halen

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Alex Van Halen

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Alexa Von Tobel

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

Alex Tabarrok

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Alexa Chung

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

Alex Kapranos

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

E. L. Konigsburg

The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.