Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Negroponte

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

Oscar Wilde

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Oscar Wilde

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Lydia Lunch

I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.

Lucille Ball

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

Louis Farrakhan

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

Lorraine Bracco

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

Lorna Luft

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

Michel de Montaigne

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Michael Nichols

There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

Michael Nesmith

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Mark Twain

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Mark Twain

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Mark Twain

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

Marianne Williamson

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'

Marian Wright Edelman

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Martin Lawrence

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

Mark Victor Hansen

Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and it sticks. I consider Jim the 'Chairman of Speakers.' The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend, Jim Rohn.

Marguerite Duras

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Mike Brown

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

Neil Cavuto

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

R. C. Sproul

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.

Preston Manning

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Nelson Mandela

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

Nelson Mandela

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Nelson Mandela

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

Nelson Mandela

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

Kristen Stewart

I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."