Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darrell Issa

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

Derek Jeter

You'd love to be at home but we're not really worried about it, ... It doesn't make any difference where you play. You still have to play well.

We didn't come to play in the first half, and their big men really hurt us. When we played them at home, they hurt us with their outside shooting, but their big men made the difference tonight.

Bob Myers

We don't have to be in the lead, or get the publicity for everything we do. What's important is that we pull out all the stops to leverage every way we can make a difference when people are in great need.

Hasso Plattner

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.

Whether it means something or not, I don't know. It wasn't the only difference between the two.

Thomas Friedman

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Giles Foden

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

Adam Smith

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Adam Grant

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

Ada Lovelace

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Alfred Stieglitz

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alfred Nobel

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Alfred Marshall

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Alexander Alekhine

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

Alex Campbell

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Aldous Huxley

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

We were all so proud of what he was doing, and he was proud, too. If he was going to be away from his friends and family, he wanted to be making a difference and he felt like he was.

We were a little intimidated in the first 4-5 minutes. But after that, we never had any rhythm on offense. Tonight, our young kids learned the difference between non-conference and AAAAA-West basketball." ()

(We want to) make a difference in the music business.

Aaron McGruder

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

Aaron Allston

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Abbas Kiarostami

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Agatha Christie

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

Simon Sinek

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Jose Cuevas

We have made a difference and I think this will be the same.

Potatoes are like apples: think of the difference between Macs and Golden Delicious.

Nick's a great player, and he made a big difference for us (Saturday). But we've got a lot of great players on this team. This is going to be one of those years where you have a lot of guys who are going to have big games.

Night and day difference from day one. He's right there. Now, it's just timing and conditioning.