Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Bernbach

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

Werner Erhard

In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as human beings we can live in a possibility instead of in what we have inherited, that instead of just being a human being because we were born that way, we can declare the possibility of being for human beings. This is the work of transformation: bringing forth a breakthrough in the possibility of being human.

Samuel Fuller

There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

Samuel J. Palmisano

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

Salvador Dali

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Salvador Dali

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

Salman Rushdie

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

Wangari Maathai

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Virgil Goode

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.

W. H. Auden

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Wayne Gretzky

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

Wayne Dyer

If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.

Ty Cobb

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

Vladimir Putin

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

Stephen Colbert

If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.

Sonia Sotomayor

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

Sonia Sotomayor

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Sonia Sotomayor

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Tim Tebow

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.

Tim Berners-Lee

It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.

Tim Berners-Lee

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

Greta Gerwig

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

Herman Kahn

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Herbie Hancock

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Herman Melville

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Henry David Thoreau

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

H. L. Mencken

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

Jill Scott

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jennifer Capriati

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

Jenny Slate

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

Jeffrey Kluger

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.