Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Smith

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

Alex Van Halen

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Alex Van Halen

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Alexa Von Tobel

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

Alex Tabarrok

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Alexa Chung

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

Alex Kapranos

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

E. L. Konigsburg

The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

E. O. Wilson

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

E. M. Forster

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Douglas Preston

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

Douglas Adams

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

Dorothea Brande

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Doris Lessing

We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.

Don Yaeger

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

Dale Earnhardt

As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

Crispin Glover

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

Andy Goldsworthy

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Amy Klobuchar

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Allen Ginsberg

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

Anthony Jeselnik

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

Andy Andrews

Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.

Andy Andrews

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Andy Andrews

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Andy Andrews

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

Alexander McCall Smith

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

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.

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.