Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Latifah

There are different flavours of sexiness.

Terence McKenna

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

Randall Jarrell

Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Sebastian Vettel

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

Scott McClellan

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Shunryu Suzuki

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

Shirley Chisholm

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

Shari Arison

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone elses day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

Shanola Hampton

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

Seth Shostak

No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.

Seth

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

Seth

We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people

Seth

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

Leslie Jamison

Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when/if I've said it in a public forum.

Leonard Lauder

One person really can make a difference.

Len Wein

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

Laura Schlessinger

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

Larry Dossey

The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

Vikram Seth

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Vanna White

I need to be able to raise my hands up to turn the letters. That's probably the only limitation I have when it comes to gowns. I wear tight ones, I wear loose ones, I wear every color, and different fabrics.

Vanna Bonta

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Tug McGraw

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

Susan Olsen

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

Susanna Hoffs

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

Tarsem Singh

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

Taryn Manning

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage

Tariq Ramadan

In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes.

Taylor Swift

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.

Stephen Lang

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.