Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Leo Ornstein

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

Leo Rosten

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

Lee Strobel

I have a good Muslim friend who comes over to my house. Good guy; reads the Qur'an in Arabic. He comes over to my house and we talk about faith and we talk about things we have in common, but I can't shy away from the differences that we have. So I talk about why I'm not a Muslim and about the evidence that exists that show Christianity is true.

Lawrence Lessig

There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.

Lauren Conrad

Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

Lady Gaga

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Joyce Meyer

Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

Joseph Heller

They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?

Joseph Campbell

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Karl Urban

I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have to wait and see. I would love to explore Middle Earth again with Peter.

Monica Bellucci

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

Peter Berg

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Phil Collins

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

Peter Cameron

It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.

Pete Hegseth

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

Rachel Cohn

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

Rabindranath Tagore

... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

Rabindranath Tagore

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

Haruki Murakami

Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.

Gustav Mahler

We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.

Gustav Mahler

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

John Locke

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

John Leguizamo

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

John Leguizamo

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

John Landis

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

John le Carre

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Justin Timberlake

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

Julie Delpy

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion. It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

Judith McNaught

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Judith Martin

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Katherine Harris

Well, you know, whats so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.