Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Florynce Kennedy

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

Ferran Adria

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

Henry Miller

The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but with profundities. The solid ground on which the scientist pretends to rest gives way, in astrology, to imponderables.

Henny Youngman

Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.

Gina Lollobrigida

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

Gillian Flynn

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gerhard Richter

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

Hassan Nasrallah

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

Harvey Pekar

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Griffin Dunne

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

James D. Watson

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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.

Ella Baker

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

Elle King

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

Jeremy Irvine

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

Jeff Buckley

Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.

Georges Braque

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.

George Sand

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

George Saunders

I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.

Jean-Claude Juncker

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

Jim Hamilton

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.