Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Simmons

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

Garth Brooks

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

Garry Winogrand

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

Garry Winogrand

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

Frederick Douglass

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

Frank Stella

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

Frank Gehry

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

George Eliot

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Fernando Pessoa

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Ferdinand Marcos

We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Ferdinand de Saussure

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Felix Frankfurter

While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

Faye Dunaway

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

Faran Tahir

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

Fareed Zakaria

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

Famke Janssen

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

Francis Ford Coppola

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

Francis Chan

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

Francis Bacon

Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and Policy, which is the most immersed ... , yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

Jennifer Capriati

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

Jean de La Fontaine

Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

Groucho Marx

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Graham Coxon

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

Graham Greene

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

Giuliana Sgrena

One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.

Gil Scott-Heron

We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have supported us long enough for me to stay out here, while other people who are doing other things have not. A lot of people have trouble pinning down what it is we do and how. But we don't have any trouble with that. As long as that's their problem, it's their problem.

Gil Scott-Heron

A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.

Haley Reinhart

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

Gregory David Roberts

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

Ian Rush

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

Howard Finster

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Howard Nemerov

A chronicle is very different from history proper.