Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mia Wasikowska

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

Michelangelo Antonioni

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

Michel Patini

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

Michael Johnson

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

Michael Josephson

Success or failure can only be measured in terms of a particular objective. The success of a person whose life objective is money or status will look very different than the success of one who sets out to make a positive difference in the world.

Michael Josephson

Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

Michael J. Fox

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

Michael J. Fox

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

Martina McBride

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

Mark Zuckerberg

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

Theodor Adorno

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Terry Pratchett

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

Terry Pratchett

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Margaret Fuller

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Michael Kors

The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for

Michael Lewis

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Michael Enzi

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

Melinda Gates

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Michele Bachmann

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

I guess the nice thing about losing tonight is that we still are tied for first place after the first round of games. We played hard tonight. We didn't lose the game. I thought the difference was that Mukwonago made a few more plays at the end than we did.

Imposing fines makes little difference to the rich.

I'm overwhelmed and frustrated. I don't know what the difference is.

Kimi Raikkonen

I missed it and I guess he ran a little wider and hit it so it was unfortunate for him and the team, but in the end I don't think it would have made any difference to the championship.

If just one kid sees where I've been and sees how far I've come, and that makes a difference in that kid's life, that's what matters to me.

I never looked at it as us having a monkey on our backs. We didn't prepare any differently for this game tonight than we did the other games with them. I think the big difference was that tonight, we executed our game plan as well as we could have.

The finish order, though we won't know all the minutiae, probably was not appreciable in the difference between first, second and third.

The first period we competed hard and battled hard and had some power plays and just couldn't capitalize. In the second they had some power plays and they took advantage. That was the difference in the game. After the first period they just took it to us.

Neal Stephenson

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

Neale Donald Walsch

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

Neale Donald Walsch

Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.

Nate Lowman

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity . It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Milan Kundera

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?