“The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.”
― Aaron Allston
“I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.”
― Aaron Brown
“It’s a massive difference when you play in front of full stadiums; you can sense the buzz around the players, and it helps us get that extra one or two per cent that may be the difference in games.”
― Aaron Ramsey
“It’s nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There’s a difference.”
― Aaron Sorkin
“There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.”
― Abbie Hoffman
“I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.”
― Abi Morgan
“To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.”
― Adena Friedman
“The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.”
― Aileen Lee
“Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.”
― Al Franken
“The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don’t have the leisure of time in television.”
― Alan Ball
“If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the ‘Huffington Post’ went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?”
― Alec Baldwin
“My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don’t feel the difference.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
“To me there’s no difference between a book of stories and a novel – they’re just slightly different shapes.”
― Aleksandar Hemon
“There’s a difference between expectations and aspirations.”
― Alex Kapranos
“As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.”
― Alex Tabarrok
“I don’t like it when people don’t know the difference between ‘their’, ‘they’re’, ‘there’.”
― Alexa Chung
“Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.”
― Alexa Von Tobel
“The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
― Alexander Pope
“Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.”
― Alexis Arguello
“I don’t care if I play on the wing or in the middle. There is no difference.”
― Alexis Sanchez
“I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.”
― Ali MacGraw
“This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.”
― Alice Eve
“The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.”
― Allan Sherman
“I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.”
― Allen Iverson
“To try and to pretend that there’s no difference between where we come from is so dumb.”
― Allison Williams
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine
“I see no difference between a violent Islamist and a far-Right terrorist.”
― Amber Rudd
“It is not undemocratic to express one’s difference of opinion.”
― Amit Shah
“What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.”
― Amitava Kumar
“There is a difference between being bold and being rash.”
― Amy Klobuchar
“And as journalists we look for differences – differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We’re very sensitized to difference, but it’s much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”
― Amy Waldman
“When the pastor’s up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and spitting in the key of the organ. When looping, you’re in key, you’re in a rhythm, you’re in a pocket, and that’s where James Brown was pulling from, and so that’s where I’m pulling from. The only difference is I’m coming at it under hip-hop.”
― Anderson Paak
“You add one million citizens to the voting rolls in this state, that’s a significant, significant difference. You do that nationwide, it’s a significant difference.”
― Andrew Cuomo
“What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
― Andrew Lloyd Webber
“Well the least favourite question is the one that one’s asked particularly about in Japan is what’s the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that’s about eighty bucks.”
― Andrew Lloyd Webber
“We have members of Parliament from all over the country, many of whom have a difference of opinion on some issues.”
― Andrew Scheer
“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.”
― Andy Goldsworthy
“As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.”
― Andy Serkis
“There’s a difference between a Hollywood wife and a Hollywood woman. I don’t count. I worked.”
― Angie Dickinson
“Representation makes a difference.”
― Angie Thomas
“Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.”
― Ann Coulter
“Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I’m determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.”
― Ann Romney
“There’s a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.”
― Anna Kendrick
“The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.”
― Anna Neagle
“They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton… I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.”
― Anne Hutchinson
“Your legacy makes a difference.”
― Annie Ilonzeh
“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.”
― Annie Leibovitz
“Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.”
― Anthea Turner
“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
― Anton Chekhov
“As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.”
― Antonio Guterres
“An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.”
― Anupam Kher
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
― Aristotle
“I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference – she saved the gorillas.”
― Arne Glimcher
“There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.”
― Art Bell
“To see the difference between when I came to Britain in 1955 with what it is today, to see how the sub-continent has been embraced, it is quite extraordinary.”
― Art Malik
“I’m ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women’s lives.”
― Arunachalam Muruganantham
“The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”
― Ashley Montagu
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
― Audre Lorde
“My debut, ‘Vicky Donor,’ was when I was 27. If I was a star kid, it would’ve been 22. I don’t think the difference of five years would’ve affected much.”
― Ayushmann Khurrana
“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”
― Barack Obama
“The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families – families stretching to make every dollar count.”
― Barbara Mikulski
“We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.”
― Barry Schuler
“The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.”
― Ben Bradlee
“The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
“The difference between a child’s aspiration and that family’s situation, is the exact measurement of that family’s frustrations.”
― Benjamin Todd Jealous
“The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.”
― Benjamin Wittes
“The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.”
― Bernardo Bertolucci
“I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.”
― Bianca Jagger
“Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.”
― Billy Butler
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
― Blaise Pascal
“Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.”
― Bo Bennett
“There’s a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.”
― Bob Menendez
“It’s about really being considerate of the culture in the game studios that Activision buys. That’s the biggest difference between us and any of our competitors.”
― Bobby Kotick
“But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.”
― Bono
“There’s a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don’t do it well or pull it off.”
― Brad Anderson
“I think every player should think that he’s a difference maker.”
― Brett Favre
“There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing.”
― Brian Stelfreeze
“We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.”
― Brit Hume
“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”
― Brooks Adams
“The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.”
― Bruce Dern
“Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.”
― Bruno Tonioli
“If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn’t talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn’t talk about ideologies of white supremacy. It only talks about involuntary servitude and forced labor.”
― Bryan Stevenson
“The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.”
― Bulent Ecevit
“I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on ‘Torchwood.’”
― Burn Gorman
“I’ve toured the U.S. every single year and I’ve put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn’t make any difference to me.”
― Buzz Osborne
“All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.”
― C. V. Raman
“The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn’t really compete against another team.”
― Cal Thomas
“There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.”
― Carl Barks
“Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.”
― Carol Berg
“’Taxi’ made a big difference because it got me into comedy.”
― Carol Kane
“In BMX, you need an inner mongrel, something that’s a point of difference in the female category.”
― Caroline Buchanan
“What made the biggest difference to how I looked and felt was cutting out all sugar.”
― Caroline Flack
“The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn’t think he’s Reggie Jackson.”
― Catfish Hunter
“Power projects are differently placed to road projects. There’s difference stress across different companies across different groups based on their leverage levels.”
― Chanda Kochhar
“I’ve never been on a dating app, so I don’t really know the difference between swiping left or right, LOL.”
― Chanel West Coast
“The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.”
― Charles Babbage
“The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.”
― Charles Barkley
“There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don’t have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.”
― Charles Bass
“Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea – that anyone can make a difference.”
― Charles Best
“As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”
― Charles de Lint
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
― Charlotte Bronte
“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”
― Charlotte Whitton
“I could make a difference.”
― Chris Burke
“There’s a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.”
― Chris Cubas
“I classify myself as a comedian, but I’m one of those comedians who also acts so that I can split the difference and feel insecure about both.”
― Chris Gethard
“I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can’t tell the difference.”
― Christian Serratos
“I wouldn’t really, realistically speaking, know the difference between wearing an S.S. uniform and a U.S. Marine uniform. To me it’s all a uniform.”
― Christoph Waltz
“The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.”
― Chubby Checker
“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“The difference with me is that I did inhale.”
― Cilla Black
“To make a difference within the football environment means to make a difference in the world.”
― Clarence Seedorf
“Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.”
― Clint Eastwood
“As a prosecutor, I saw firsthand how VAWA has made a difference in the lives of women and girls by ensuring an aggressive response to domestic violence, boosting victims’ services, and enhancing efforts to prevent and prosecute these horrible crimes.”
― Conner Eldridge
“My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.”
― Conrad Hall
“The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.”
― Constance Baker Motley
“The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they’ll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.”
― Corey Taylor
“There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.”
― Cornel West
“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.”
― Crispin Glover
“The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.”
― Cristina Saralegui
“I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.”
― Curt Schilling
“In terms of graphic versus prose, I could probably do a lecture on that topic. But what stood out most was the difference in pacing the language and resulting scenes. One illustration can do so much for the reader.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith
“As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.”
― Dale Earnhardt
“The difference between art about death and actual death is that one’s a celebration and the other’s a dull fact.”
― Damien Hirst
“Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn’t make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn’t make any difference.”
― Dan Phillips
“The difference between online and offline commerce is basically blurring and disappearing.”
― Dan Schulman
“The difference between Koppell and Olberman types is that one gives editorializing in all its editorial frankness so there are no mistakes as to bias, and the other passes off a subtler bias as objectivity.”
― Dana Loesch
“To be honest, once you’ve driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don’t notice a difference.”
― Danica Patrick
“If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I’m unable to see it.”
― Daniel Keys Moran
“I would suggest it to any actor to get some movement classes because it really, really makes a difference.”
― Daniela Ruah
“There’s a difference between Bhad Bhabie and Danielle, yes.”
― Danielle Bregoli
“I don’t think there’s so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it’s even harder to make documentaries.”
― Danis Tanovic
“Faygo’s like a Detroit thing, and you can’t really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it’s foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it’s cream soda, so that’s ill!”
― Danny Brown
“Well, I’m going to try to make a real difference in Washington’s spending patterns.”
― Darrell Issa
“That’s the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.”
― Dave Brubeck
“I wasn’t as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I’m not sure what difference that made.”
― David Beckham
“The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That’s what motivates people; it’s about the money, sadly, at anyone’s expense.”
― David Cassidy
“I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.”
― David Gest
“In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.”
― David Hasselhoff
“I have both my daughters on gluten-free diets, and you can see the difference. They are only four years old, and it definitely changes their mood. You can see that for sure.”
― David Kirsch
“Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.”
― David Mamet
“People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.”
― David Neeleman
“I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.”
― David Remnick
“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.”
― David Sarnoff
“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
― David Sarnoff
“During Ronald Reagan’s administration, ’60 Minutes’ ran a segment about the difference between Reagan’s rhetoric and Reagan’s actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan’s team called up ’60 Minutes’ to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.”
― David Shields
“The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.”
― David Shields
“I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It’s the difference between playwrights and novelists.”
― David Suchet
“There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you.”
― Dean Ambrose
“The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.”
― Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.”
― Deborah Norville
“Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.”
― Dee Hock
“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”
― Denis Healey
“I’ve learned there’s a difference between friends and associates.”
― Denzel Curry
“We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.”
― Derek Jacobi
“In all of my books, I’ve emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.”
― Derrick Jensen
“Strapping Young Lad is a representation of me, just as much as ‘Ki,’ ‘Ghost,’ ‘Ziltoid’ or ‘Infinity.’ There’s no difference; it was just a different period of time.”
― Devin Townsend
“Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn’t right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?”
― Dick Cheney
“Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games – players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.”
― Diego Forlan
“There’s a certain vibe at Eden Gardens… Playing in front of 60,000 people is special and it makes a massive difference.”
― Dinesh Karthik
“The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.”
― Dirk Benedict
“There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.”
― Divyanka Tripathi
“The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.”
― Dmitri Alperovitch
“There’s a difference between violence and senseless violence.”
― DMX
“I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.”
― Dolph Lundgren
“Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they’re really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the ‘pigeon-holing’ thing.”
― Dominic Monaghan
“That’s the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It’s just instinct. That’s the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.”
― Don Everly
“There’s a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don’t think I’m offensive onstage.”
― Don Rickles
“There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.”
― Don Willett
“In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s hawkishness – the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we’re in need of one.”
― Donna Brazile
“The difference between a mob and a movement is follow-through.”
― Doug Baldwin
“The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.”
― Doug TenNapel
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.”
― Douglas Adams
“A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.”
― Douglas Alexander
“I’ve never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.”
― Douglas Booth
“I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
― Duke of Wellington
“There’s no difference in a lot of people’s minds between good musicians and popular musicians.”
― Dweezil Zappa
“The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.”
― Earl Butz
“I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.”
― Eden Hazard
“Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.”
― Edgardo Osorio
“The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.”
― Edmund Barton
“I think there’s a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.”
― Edmund H. North
“The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.”
― Edward Albee
“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”
― Edward de Bono
“The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.”
― Edward Hirsch
“The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.”
― Edward Ruscha
“The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”
― Edward Thorndike
“That is to say, nature’s laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.”
― Edward Tufte
“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”
― Edwin Way Teale
“For any actor, when you’re playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?”
― Efren Ramirez
“Contrary to what everyone thinks, I’m not superstitious – I’m spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.”
― Ekta Kapoor
“If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what’s the difference between being here and somewhere else?”
― El-P
“I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it’s always happening.”
― Elizabeth Olsen
“With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don’t have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.”
― Elizabeth Warren
“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”
― Ellen Glasgow
“Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.”
― Elvis Presley
“Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.”
― Emily VanCamp
“I don’t like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference – being unpredictable.”
― Emmanuelle Seigner
“Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.”
― Eric Alterman
“But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don’t want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that’s a big difference.”
― Eriq La Salle
“But there’s a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.”
― Errol Morris
“Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can’t become a virtuoso in both.”
― Ethel Barrymore
“Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.”
― Ethel Waters
“When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
― Euripides
“I don’t know the difference between working and not working.”
― Eva Zeisel
“The money between the first pick and the 10th pick – that’s a big difference! That’s like a $10-million-dollar difference.”
― Ezekiel Elliott
“There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.”
― Ezra Taft Benson
“It don’t make much difference what you study, so long as you don’t like it.”
― Finley Peter Dunne
“When I choose what I do, I ask, ‘Does it make a difference?’”
― Frances Hesselbein
“There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.”
― Francis Bacon
“What’s the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.”
― Frank Carson
“The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.”
― Frank Herbert
“Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.”
― Frank Knight
“Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.”
― Frank Macfarlane Burnet
“One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.”
― Fred Korematsu
“There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.”
― Fred Wilson
“There is a vast difference – a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.”
― Frederick M. Vinson
“It’s important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.”
― Freja Beha Erichsen
“Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
― Friedrich Durrenmatt
“The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.”
― Friedrich Durrenmatt
“Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There’s not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.”
― Gabe Newell
“Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.”
― Gagan Narang
“You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that’s what makes the difference in the big matches.”
― Gareth Southgate
“You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.”
― Gary Cherone
“There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the ‘no.’ His ‘no’ was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My ‘no’ actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.”
― Gary Johnson
“I still don’t go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I’m not not going because I’m afraid, but rather I’m not going now because I don’t want to get off the couch.”
― Gavin Creel
“There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.”
― Gaylord Perry
“Sometimes it boils down to a move or two and that makes all the difference.”
― Geeta Phogat
“The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.”
― Gene Hackman
“There’s a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.”
― Genevieve Gorder
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”
― George Edmund Street
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
― George Eliot
“I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.”
― George Galloway
“I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I – not a hell of a lot of difference.”
― George Gaynes
“Upper berth, lower berth, that’s the difference between talent and genius.”
― George Gershwin
“There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.”
― George Lucas
“Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.”
― George Packer
“I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.”
― George Washington Carver
“What is the difference between fashion and style? Fashion says, ‘Me, too,’ and style, ‘Only me.’”
― Geraldine Stutz
“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
― Gertrude Stein
“The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.”
― Gertrude Stein
“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.”
― Gina Raimondo
“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
― Giorgio Armani
“There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.”
― Golda Meir
“When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I’m not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.”
― Gong Li
“If we make a difference in Ohio, we can make a difference on a national scale.”
― Gordon Gee
“I love making a difference, and doing it quickly.”
― Greg Brenneman
“As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That’s the difference.”
― Greg Lake
“NASA has made a difference.”
― Gregory H. Johnson
“There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.”
― Gustav Mahler
“Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
― H. L. Mencken
“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
― H. L. Mencken
“The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.”
― Hamilton Jordan
“I’m motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people’s lives.”
― Hannah Teter
“It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.”
― Hans Hofmann
“The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn’t is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.”
― Hanya Yanagihara
“I couldn’t remember when I’d stopped willing to be trans and started wanting to be trans. If there were a difference, I’d forgotten it.”
― Hari Nef
“A toned backside truly anchors your physique and can make the difference between jeans fitting and jeans really fitting.”
― Harley Pasternak
“I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.”
― Harri Holkeri
“I’ve learnt that there’s absolutely no difference in Telugu and Hindi industries. Everything is almost identical. The only difference is that Hindi films have a wider release.”
― Harshvardhan Rane
“Adolescents are still children in that they can’t yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.”
― Heather O’Neill
“The fact that that’s the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It’s so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.”
― Hector Elizondo
“The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.”
― Helen Wills Moody
“As many as half of Ethiopia’s girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.”
― Helene D. Gayle
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
― Henri Matisse
“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”
― Henry Adams
“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”
― Henry Miller
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
“Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.”
― Herbie Hancock
“There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.”
― Herman Gorter
“There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.”
― Herman Melville
“One victory more or less doesn’t make the difference for me now.”
― Hermann Maier
“I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.”
― Hermann von Helmholtz
“There’s a difference between fair game and playing games.”
― Hillary Clinton
“I want to make a difference.”
― Hillary Clinton
“There’s a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of ‘freedom.’”
― Hirokazu Kore-eda
“The mining towns I describe in the ‘Helium-3’ novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns, rather than being located in the Appalachian coalfields, are on the moon.”
― Homer Hickam
“Don’t imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.”
― Howard Jacobson
“The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey
“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.”
― Hugh Hefner
“The ‘Alliance for Progress’ was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.”
― Hugo Chavez
“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
“The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.”
― Ian Mckellen
“There’s not much difference between love and hate.”
― Ichiro Suzuki
“A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.”
― Ilaiyaraaja
“For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn’t make any difference.”
― Im Dong-Hyun
“The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.”
― Iman
“There’s a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I’m still trying to figure out what that fine line is – I think we are all.”
― India Arie
“All successful captains in the world have had long-term roles to make a difference.”
― Inzamam-ul-Haq
“How you manage change can make all the difference.”
― Irene Rosenfeld
“There is no difference between me and Netanyahu in reading the threat of Iran. There is no daylight between us on this issue at all.”
― Isaac Herzog
“The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They’re still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine.”
― Itzhak Perlman
“Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.”
― Ivan Lendl
“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett
“As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.”
― J. D. Hayworth
“All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That’s the difference between mere theater and performance art.”
― Jack Bowman
“I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.”
― Jack Kingston
“Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn’t make any difference what the crisis is.”
― Jack Nicklaus
“My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I’m 70 or if I’m 20? The audience knows they aren’t getting any old stories from me.”
― Jackie Mason
“It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
― Jackson Pollock
“Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.”
― Jacqueline Carey
“If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you’ll really see a difference.”
― Jai Courtney
“As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.”
― Jalal Talabani
“Instinctively I know the difference between general pain from bowling, and pain caused by a specific problem.”
― James Anderson
“I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I’m so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.”
― James Brown
“What’s the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don’t know the difference.”
― James Caan
“It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.”
― James E. Rogers
“I don’t see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.”
― James Gunn
“The difference – the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.”
― James Lipton
“I’ve got a new pair of trainers. That’s the only difference in my life since I started working for Amazon.”
― James May
“There’s a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.”
― James Murphy
“The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.”
― James Randi
“Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I’m as bald as a billiard ball!”
― James Taylor
“The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
― James Thurber
“The size of the budget doesn’t make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they’re just much bigger.”
― James Wan
“The size of the budget doesn’t make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I have on a big budget film as well, but they’re just much bigger.”
― James Wan
“Over the years, we’ve developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference to recreate clarity for the audience.”
― Jamie Hyneman
“I don’t agree with the whole ‘my mother’s my friend’ approach, because you’re their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.”
― Jane Asher
“We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal’s secret.”
― Jane Velez-Mitchell
“’On earth the living have much to bear;’ the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.”
― Jane Welsh Carlyle
“A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.”
― Janet Reno
“I want to make a difference.”
― Jared Polis
“I’m wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I’m a California kid, but there’s a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.”
― Jason Lewis
“When other teams fear you, that’s a big difference.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“London and L.A. are two opposites – I like the difference.”
― Jason Statham
“Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It’s not that I like to sleep, it’s that I don’t like to get up! There is a difference.”
― JC Chasez
“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”
― Jean de la Bruyere
“The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.”
― Jean-Michel Jarre
“My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.”
― Jeffrey Skoll
“Let’s get one thing straight – there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of ‘quitter.’”
― Jenna Morasca
“It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.”
― Jenny Craig
“I don’t really think there’s much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.”
― Jeremy Renner
“In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.”
― Jerry West
“I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.”
― Jesmyn Ward
“Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference.”
― Jessica Hecht
“If anything, there’s a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.”
― Jim Henson
“The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”
― Jim Hightower
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
― Jimmy Johnson
“There’s a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can’t figure the name of it. It’s a different chord, and they all make it.”
― Jimmy Rushing
“I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.”
― Jo Cox
“The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.”
― Joan Chen
“Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.”
― Jocko Willink
“There’s a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.”
― Joe Carnahan
“There’s so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it’s a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.”
― Joe Dante
“The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.”
― Joey Adams
“There’s times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.”
― Johan Santana
“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
― Johann Kaspar Lavater
“There’s a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.”
― Johanna Konta
“It’s not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.”
― John Barrow
“There’s a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.”
― John Boyega
“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”
― John C. Maxwell
“All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability – the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.”
― John Gerzema
“Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.”
― John Hull
“But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.”
― John le Carre
“Rehearsals make a huge difference.”
― John Leguizamo
“There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.”
― John Lithgow
“I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.”
― John M. Grunsfeld
“That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.”
― John Madden
“I feel as much British as I do American. There’s not much difference between our countries.”
― John McAfee
“What’s the difference? One guy’s the same as the other.”
― John Mellencamp
“The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists’ recordings.”
― John Seabrook
“In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.”
― John Sergeant Wise
“When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That’s a big difference.”
― John Sununu
“I think difference of opinion is a good thing.”
― Jon Tester
“The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We’re kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.”
― Jonah Goldberg
“The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.”
― Jonathan Kozol
“I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.”
― Jonathan Miller
“I’m not a star, I’m an actor – there’s a difference!”
― Jonathan Pryce
“In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference – that is what I have argued.”
― Jonathan Sacks
“I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.”
― Jose Manuel Barroso
“The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.”
― Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.”
― Josh Billings
“There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.”
― Josh Gad
“The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That’s how big the difference is, one species to another.”
― Juan Enriquez
“In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women’s vote to John McCain’s 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.”
― Juan Williams
“I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer… It’s innate.”
― Judy Sheindlin
“There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.”
― Julia Leigh
“Dover’s cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.”
― Julian Baggini
“Every team has a player like Marco Reus who can make the difference.”
― Jupp Heynckes
“It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?”
― Jurgen Klopp
“I wouldn’t even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there’s a difference.”
― Jurnee Smollett-Bell
“There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There’s a difference between that and racism.”
― Justin Simien
“There’s a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.”
― Justin Tuck
“I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.”
― Jyoti Amge
“People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we’ve been socialized with.”
― Kameron Hurley
“Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.”
― Kanye West
“I have a saying: be the difference with the things that make you different.”
― Karen Carney
“I don’t know what I’m meant to do. I’m not important, am I? I’m not doing anything that makes a difference.”
― Karl Pilkington
“The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.”
― Karthik Subbaraj
“There’s a difference between being posh and being rich.”
― Kate Reardon
“Our teachers made such a difference – all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.”
― Katherine Johnson
“There’s really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.”
― Kathryn Bigelow
“We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.”
― Kendrick Meek
“Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.”
― Kenneth Clarke
“One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.”
― Kenneth Fisher
“’Hee Haw’ began about the same time as ‘Laugh-In,’ but the difference was that the material on ‘Laugh-In’ was more sophisticated: people looked out windows. On ‘Hee Haw,’ they look out of cornfields.”
― Kenny Price
“When I was on the ‘Mickey Mouse Club,’ there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.”
― Keri Russell
“There’s a difference between a superstar and a megastar.”
― Kevin Harvick
“I’m still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.”
― Kevin Mitnick
“Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.”
― Kevin Spacey
“The mid-eighteen-thirties marked the rise of eugenics and racialism, with phrenology emerging as just one of the many pseudosciences that sought to enact, reinforce, and restrict racial difference.”
― Kevin Young
“After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.”
― Kimbal Musk
“I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.”
― Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
“For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.”
― Kirsten Gillibrand
“There’s a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.”
― Kit Harington
“The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.”
― Kitty Kelley
“I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.”
― Klaus Kinski
“There’s a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.”
― Kristin Chenoweth
“I’m hoping to make the kind of difference in my lifetime that allows me to be remembered positively.”
― KRS-One
“In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.”
― Ksenia Solo
“I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn’t make any difference.”
― Kurt Russell
“The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.”
― Kygo
“I want to make a difference.”
― Kyle Shewfelt
“But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.”
― Lactantius
“There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.”
― Lady Gaga
“The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.”
― Lando Norris
“I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.”
― Laura Dern
“Oh, well, there’s a difference between privacy and secrecy.”
― Laura Schlessinger
“There’s a difference between criticism and hatred.”
― Lauren Mayberry
“It’s been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.”
― Lawrence Bender
“I don’t hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn’t make a whole lot of difference to what extent we’re involved in propping up those governments.”
― Lawrence Wright
“When I’m my own editor, there’s very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.”
― Len Wein
“I’m glad if my work can make a difference.”
― Lena Dunham
“The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.”
― Leo Ornstein
“It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.”
― Leon Askin
“One person really can make a difference.”
― Leonard Lauder
“There’s a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.”
― Lil Rel Howery
“We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.”
― Lillian Russell
“I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.”
― Linda McMahon
“Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.”
― Lindsey Vonn
“The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.”
― Lisa Gansky
“Humans are generally much trickier to draw because we’re so used to looking at and analyzing human faces. The slightest tweak makes a huge difference in how we perceive that character.”
― Lisa Hanawalt
“I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.”
― Liz Carpenter
“I’m not just a rapper. I’m an entertainer. That’s the difference.”
― LL Cool J
“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.”
― Lorna Luft
“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.”
― Lorraine Bracco
“I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.”
― Lou Gehrig
“The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.”
― Louis D. Brandeis
“A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.”
― Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“The support in Britain made a big difference.”
― Louise Woodward
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.”
― Lucy Powell
“The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.”
― Ludwig Borne
“We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people’s lives.”
― Luke Richardson
“I am a humanist not a feminist. There’s a big difference.”
― Lydia Lunch
“Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.”
― Madame de Stael
“Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.”
― Madame de Stael
“Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.”
― Madeleine Albright
“For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.”
― Madeleine Albright
“The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.”
― Madeleine Albright
“The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.”
― Madeleine M. Kunin
“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.”
― Mae Jemison
“There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.”
― Maggie Smith
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.”
― Maimonides
“I want to make a difference.”
― Malcolm Brogdon
“The only difference between a flexible person and one who is not is that the flexible person has to go farther to get the same stretch.”
― Mandy Ingber
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”
― Manfred Eigen
“Samir Nasri is a very technical player who always made the difference playing as a midfielder when he is fit.”
― Manuel Pellegrini
“I can’t say who is the best, because all of them have their qualities. There are many goalkeepers out there who can make a difference.”
― Marc-Andre ter Stegen
“There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.”
― Marc Garneau
“Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.”
― Marcus Samuelsson
“There’s a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That’s what writers do when they’re good.”
― Margaret Atwood
“I learned there’s a big difference between juniors and the pros.”
― Maria Sharapova
“I think I’m making a difference for a lot of young singers.”
― Marilyn Horne
“The difference between ‘Molto Italiano’ and ‘The Babbo Cookbook’ is that the ingredient lists in ‘Molto’ are about half or even a third the size. In ‘Babbo,’ they are very long, they are very real. That’s exactly how we make them in the restaurant.”
― Mario Batali
“Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.”
― Marjorie Liu
“I think that there’s a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.”
― Mark Foster
“I’m not fat. There’s a difference between being big and being fat.”
― Mark Henry
“I would say the difference between ‘old Mark’ and post-stroke Mark … is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don’t have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.”
― Mark Kirk
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain
“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.”
― Mark Twain
“The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”
― Mark Twain
“I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.”
― Mark Zuckerberg
“The difference between Germany and Italy? I think in Serie A there is more quality and the game is quicker, but in Germany it’s similar.”
― Marko Arnautovic
“Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.”
― Marsha Blackburn
“And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.”
― Martin Chemnitz
“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”
― Martin Gardner
“There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart.”
― Martin Jacques
“The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.”
― Martina Navratilova
“I don’t want to be a director. I want to direct. There’s a difference.”
― Marty Feldman
“Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.”
― Mason Cooley
“Little things can make such a big difference during recording.”
― Matt Cameron
“Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.”
― Matt Haig
“On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.”
― Matt Mickiewicz
“There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.”
― Matthew McConaughey
“The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language.”
― Max Frisch
“We’re all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven’t been caught yet.”
― Max Walker
“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
― Maya Angelou
“There’s a big difference between sanity and insanity.”
― Megan Gallagher
“Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.”
― Mehdi Hasan
“The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.”
― Meir Kahane
“Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.”
― Mekhi Phifer
“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.”
― Melinda Gates
“The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.”
― Metro Boomin
“Menswear remains steady. It’s a difference of a pleat versus flat-front pant or two buttons versus three in the jacket.”
― Michael Bastian
“There’s a difference between lying and not being straight.”
― Michael Finkel
“It’s very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.”
― Michael Fishman
“There’s a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That’s really true.”
― Michael Hayden
“I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.”
― Michael Heisley
“There’s a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.”
― Michael Johnson
“Circulation of the ball is important, but it’s only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.”
― Michael Laudrup
“It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.”
― Michael Morpurgo
“I don’t see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.”
― Michael Stuhlbarg
“Understanding how to compete better has really made a difference.”
― Michelle Carter
“I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.”
― Michelle Gomez
“The frustration of Washington is you have to concentrate on just a few areas to really make a difference, and then so much of the power is at the top, at the committee chairman level.”
― Mike Coffman
“Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.”
― Mike Gallagher
“Whether it’s a penalty or a tax, it’s all one in the same. It’s coming out of somebody’s hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that’s the point. So in some ways, to me, it’s a distinction without a difference.”
― Mike Lee
“I find out as much from the guy in backstage TV as I do from my C.F.O. Anybody can e-mail me. I do town halls with employees at least once every eight weeks. I’m out there, and it makes a huge difference.”
― Mindy Grossman
“The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.”
― Minna Antrim
“I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.”
― Miranda Cosgrove
“To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.”
― Miranda Rae Mayo
“What’s the difference between herpes and love? Herpes is forever.”
― Miriam Margolyes
“I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.”
― Mirko Cro Cop
“I do believe we can do more to bring the U.N. closer to the world’s citizen and make a real difference in their lives.”
― Miroslav Lajcak
“Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.”
― Mo Farah
“I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.”
― Mo Udall
“I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don’t find any difference.”
― Mohanlal
“Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?”
― Molly Ivins
“I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.”
― Monica Bellucci
“Killing a stag is like killing a child. What’s the difference?”
― Morrissey
“Washington couldn’t tell a lie, Nixon couldn’t tell the truth, and Reagan couldn’t tell the difference.”
― Mort Sahl
“Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.”
― Mukesh Ambani
“I’ll be a difference maker from Day 1.”
― Myles Garrett
“Vocally, I don’t think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.”
― Myles Kennedy
“I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in ’76… I don’t think that one year makes a huge difference.”
― Nadia Comaneci
“I don’t see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.”
― Naftali Bennett
“There is a difference between being straightforward and careless.”
― Nana Patekar
“What is the difference between me and a criminal? My crimes were not caught. Those of us whose crimes were not caught are on this side of the fence while criminals have been condemned on the other side.”
― Nana Patekar
“I’m a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.”
― Naomi Wolf
“I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress – big difference.”
― Natasha Leggero
“’Pride And Prejudice’ takes place in a similar period to ‘Vanity Fair,’ and yet there’s a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.”
― Natasha Little
“I’ve always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they’re invested and how specific they are.”
― Nathan Fillion
“The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle – secular, humanist, or religious – says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?”
― Nathan Myhrvold
“We are all Adam’s children – it’s just the skin that makes all the difference.”
― Navjot Singh Sidhu
“The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.”
― Nawazuddin Siddiqui
“We’re all going to die. While I’m still here, I want to make a difference.”
― Neil Cavuto
“The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.”
― Neil Gaiman
“I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.”
― Nell Newman
“The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.”
― Nelson Boswell
“Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.”
― Newt Gingrich
“I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.”
― Nicholas Meyer
“There’s a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.”
― Nick Frost
“The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.”
― Nick Nolte
“I’m sure I’m a schizophrenic. The problem is I can’t tell the difference between which one’s which, which one is the real me.”
― Nick Rhodes
“There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.”
― Nigella Lawson
“Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.”
― Nina Tassler
“Overall, there isn’t much difference between a high-end Android and iOS phone, despite the fact that Android is a knockoff of iOS.”
― Noam Bardin
“Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.”
― Noreena Hertz
“It’s the historian’s job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.”
― Norman Davies
“Someone once asked, ‘What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?’ The answer is, ‘I have a conscience and he doesn’t.’”
― Norman Schwarzkopf
“Knowing that you’re not alone really does make all the difference in the world.”
― Normani Kordei
“There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.”
― Orison Swett Marden
“There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
― Orlando Bloom
“I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you’re playing is.”
― Orlando Jones
“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”
― Oscar Levant
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.”
― Ottmar Hitzfeld
“Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.”
― Ovid
“I do a lot of kicking practice and passing, and it has made a massive difference.”
― Owen Farrell
“The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.”
― P. J. O’Rourke
“You can always tell the difference – who is a wrestling fan and who is a ‘Total Divas’ fan.”
― Paige
“What’s the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That’s what I wanna know!”
― Parker Posey
“There’s a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.”
― PartyNextDoor
“I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.”
― Parvathy
“I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There’s a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don’t.”
― Patrick Collison
“The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.”
― Patrick Murray
“George Bush is not stupid. He’s evil. OK? There’s a huge difference between stupid and evil.”
― Patton Oswalt
“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”
― Paul Celan
“There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.”
― Paul Hawken
“What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it’s fair to ask the question.”
― Paul Newman
“We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.”
― Paul Simon
“Documentaries make a difference.”
― Paul Watson
“The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.”
― Paul Watzlawick
“I was the captain of the pompom squad but not the cheerleading squad. There’s a difference. The Peary Poms were the best in the state.”
― Paula Marshall
“The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people.”
― Penn Jillette
“There’s a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?”
― Pete Doherty
“The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.”
― Pete Sampras
“The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters’ lives.”
― Peter Capaldi
“We’re really in control; that’s the difference. We were out of control then.”
― Peter Criss
“I don’t actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.”
― Peter Landesman
“There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.”
― Peter Singer
“The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.”
― Peter Thomson
“I realize I am very privileged. But there’s a difference between being spoiled and privileged.”
― Petra Stunt
“In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference – that belief comes from my parents.”
― Pierre Omidyar
“There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.”
― Polly Toynbee
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”
― Potter Stewart
“’Rowdy Rathore’ is a full-length commercial movie but with a difference. The Hindi version comes with some value additions.”
― Prabhu Deva
“The biggest difference at the Ranji Trophy level is that of the pace you face. You don’t get as many quick bowlers at the Under-19 level.”
― Prithvi Shaw
“I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.”
― Prithviraj Sukumaran
“There is a difference between being educated and academics.”
― R. Madhavan
“The biggest difference for me was that I operated almost every frame on ‘Mudbound,’ and I didn’t operate on ‘Black Panther.’”
― Rachel Morrison
“The difference between the Premier League and the other leagues is the intensity of the games.”
― Rafael Benitez
“I am not hugely concerned about the amount of goals we score – it is the final results that are the difference.”
― Rafael Benitez
“I’m going to show the difference between the champ and second place.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.”
― Ralph Nader
“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.”
― Rand Paul
“In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.”
― Raul Castro
“I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.”
― Ray Dalio
“But I would like to think that it’s the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.”
― Ray Walston
“You don’t have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.”
― Rebecca MacKinnon
“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”
― Rebecca West
“There is no difference, where aims are concerned, between a terrorist with a gun and bomb in his hand and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates.”
― Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“In TV, you are much more likely to see the episode closer to the script as written – in terms of the order of the scenes – than you would in a movie, and here’s why: you don’t have as many days to edit. You have 10 to 12 weeks or more to edit a feature, and you have four days to edit TV. That’s a huge difference.”
― Reed Morano
“The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.”
― Renzo Piano
“Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.”
― Richard Le Gallienne
“We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.”
― Richard Perle
“I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here – on this little bit of very unreal estate.”
― Richard Rohr
“Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.”
― Richard Rorty
“The difference between people and ideas is… only superficial.”
― Richard Rorty
“As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ‘What is truth?’”
― Richard Whately
“What’s the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?”
― Ricki Lake
“I’m learning from every game and trying to make a difference.”
― Rishabh Pant
“Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.”
― Rob Portman
“Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It’s the difference between happiness and misery.”
― Rob Thomas
“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.”
― Robert Cailliau
“I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.”
― Robert H. Schuller
“The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.”
― Robert Heller
“I’m comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.”
― Robert Kennedy, Jr.
“The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.”
― Robert Musil
“There is not a chance that I could have a difference with Alessandro Del Piero.”
― Roberto Baggio
“I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a ‘name’ around the country.”
― Roberto Firmino
“People know I’ll be sensational, not scandalous. There’s a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.”
― Robin Leach
“No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.”
― Rocco Buttiglione
“There’s a difference between ‘political films’ and ‘films about Iraq.’”
― Rod Lurie
“The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.”
― Roger Ailes
“I’m reaching a huge audience. I’m doing what artists like Beyonce are doing in terms of selling out stadiums. The difference is my audience speaks Spanish.”
― Romeo Santos
“There’s a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy’s brains out. I’m a crook.”
― Ronald Biggs
“The difference between playing a positive and a negative role is only in the portrayal.”
― Roop Durgapal
“I’m either mentally ill or Jewish. I can’t sometimes tell the difference.”
― Roseanne Barr
“To make a difference, you have to have large aspirations.”
― Roshni Nadar
“The value of an item – in the mind of a consumer – is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.”
― Roy H. Williams
“Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.”
― Roy Hodgson
“When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.”
― Rudolf Arnheim
“It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.”
― Ruggiero Ricci
“Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.”
― Ruggiero Ricci
“Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.”
― Rumaan Alam
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
― Rush Limbaugh
“I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don’t want to be a part of anything that’s not inspiring or helpful to the community that I’m serving.”
― Russell Simmons
“Very often, as an actress, there’s some kind of stereotype, but with any good script, you should be able to swap the genders of all the characters, and it shouldn’t make a huge difference.”
― Ruth Bradley
“I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don’t think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.”
― Ruth Rendell
“Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop – there’s no difference, no ambience, no real resonance.”
― Ry Cooder
“Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?”
― Ryan Giggs
“I think it’s a reasonable request to ask: if you’re going to write a piece of regulation that affects Montana, I think you should know the difference between Butte and Bozeman.”
― Ryan Zinke
“The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.”
― Ryoji Noyori
“Broadway’s a little different from Houston, but it’s not a big difference.”
― Sadie Sink
“Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.”
― Saint Ignatius
“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.”
― Salman Rushdie
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.”
― Salvador Dali
“Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.”
― Sam Altman
“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.”
― Sam Ewing
“The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.”
― Sam Levenson
“While I knew that individuals had in history – and still could – make a difference, it seemed presumptuous – even pompous – to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.”
― Samantha Power
“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
― Samuel Richardson
“The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.”
― Sandy Adams
“Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.”
― Saskia de Brauw
“With a definite, step-by-step plan – ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.”
― Scott Reed
“There’s one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!”
― Sean Connery
“The difference for me is I just don’t sleep on friends’ couches anymore.”
― Sean Kinney
“If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.”
― Sebastian Vettel
“I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.”
― Serge Lang
“I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid.”
― Seth Green
“Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There’s a huge difference between writing and thinking.”
― Seymour Hersh
“I don’t know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.”
― Shannon Sharpe
“Modi has been the Gujarat chief minister for more than a decade, but there is a vast difference between controlling a state and leading a nation.”
― Sharad Pawar
“People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.”
― Sharon Stone
“There is a difference between a hand out and a help up. Brothers need to help brothers. They don’t do it enough.”
― Shawn Amos
“First of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t.”
― Shawn Mendes
“The difference between working with a man and a woman… is immense.”
― Sherilyn Fenn
“There’s a great difference between being popular and being an artist.”
― Shirley Knight
“Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee
“There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.”
― Simon Sinek
“I think there’s a difference between God and religion.”
― Sinead O’Connor
“I’ve never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it’s my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.”
― Sofia Vergara
“Latin guys dance. American guys don’t dance. That’s a big difference.”
― Sofia Vergara
“I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.”
― Solange Knowles
“Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor.”
― Sonya Walger
“There’s a difference between stress and pressure.”
― Spike Jonze
“What’s the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.”
― Spike Lee
“The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they’re interested in.”
― Stellan Skarsgard
“To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.”
― Stephen Curry
“Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.”
― Stephen LaBerge
“We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.”
― Steve Ballmer
“You don’t see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.”
― Steve Forbert
“There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.”
― Steve-O
“The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you’ve got playing the leads.”
― Steven Moffat
“As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I’ve seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.”
― Steven Rattner
“People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it’s not going to make that much of a difference.”
― Stewart Butterfield
“Nowadays, the difference between athletes is really small, and if you can get an edge, why not take it.”
― Sue Bird
“The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.”
― Sun Yat-sen
“Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.”
― Suzanne Bonamici
“There’s often a big difference between business considerations as opposed to the business of the heart.”
― Suzanne de Passe
“I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn’t raiding anybody.”
― T. Boone Pickens
“I came from Hyderabad and didn’t know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.”
― Tabu
“The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years – we have a lot of songs to pull from and it’s a different dynamic – a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows – it’s kind of a little like ‘hey, we’re this new band.’”
― Taylor Hanson
“Music is music – it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.”
― Tech N9ne
“Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.”
― Ted Deutch
“Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that’s what you see in the film.”
― Ted Lange
“The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.”
― Terrence Howard
“The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it’s written that way.”
― Thelma Schoonmaker
“The use of water cannon could have changed the face of British policing; it would have made a huge difference to British policing.”
― Theresa May
“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.”
― Thomas Arnold
“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
― Thomas Carlyle
“Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”
― Thomas Fuller
“There’s a difference between world-class fighters and club fighters. It’s similar to the distinction between a Grammy Award nominee and a guy who sings in Holiday Inn cocktail lounges.”
― Thomas Hauser
“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”
― Thomas Huxley
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.”
― Thomas Pynchon
“In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That’s a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.”
― Tim O’Brien
“I’m an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God – and that makes the difference.”
― Tim Scott
“There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I’m an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.”
― Tim Scott
“I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.”
― Timothy Noah
“Take the time to get your clothes to fit. It makes a difference.”
― Tina Knowles
“We’ve gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we’re not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.”
― Tobias Forge
“In the absence of specific solutions or evidence that we have people in Washington, D.C., who can make a significant difference… people will cling to those who at least speak to their frustrations.”
― Todd Young
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
― Tom Bodett
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy
“Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.”
― Tom G. Palmer
“There’s a difference… between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.”
― Tom Leykis
“It’s not that conservatives don’t care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It’s a difference of the mind, not of the heart.”
― Tom Selleck
“If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.”
― Tom Wolfe
“There’s a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.”
― Tommy Rettig
“Make a difference about something other than yourselves.”
― Toni Morrison
“I don’t sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.”
― Tony Martin
“There’s a difference between being excited about a trend and being excited about what God is already excited about.”
― Trip Lee
“I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.”
― Trixie Mattel
“The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there’s no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.”
― Tua Tagovailoa
“Work is work; wherever I’m working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what’s the difference?”
― Twyla Tharp
“Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference.”
― Ty Cobb
“There’s a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It’s absurd to think otherwise.”
― Tyler Winklevoss
“I didn’t really get into the sport for fame. I didn’t get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.”
― Tyron Woodley
“There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.”
― Tzipi Livni
“There is a difference between Mumbai wali Urvashi and Delhi wali Urvashi, and there is no place like Delhi on this earth.”
― Urvashi Rautela
“In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.”
― Uzodinma Iweala
“Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there’s no difference.”
― Vic Mignogna
“The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.”
― Victor Borge
“Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.”
― Victor Koo
“There’s a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.”
― Vijay Shankar
“What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.”
― Vilhjalmur Stefansson
“The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.”
― Ving Rhames
“It’s a very distinct difference between Romney and Obama and myself.”
― Virgil Goode
“The difference between Obama and Romney is the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee.”
― Virgil Goode
“So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.”
― Virginia Foxx
“Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
― Virginia Satir
“It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn’t imagine I would have been so energetic during the match – it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!”
― Vladimir Kramnik
“Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a ‘profession.’ There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.”
― Walter Gropius
“The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.”
― Walter Kaufmann
“There is a profound difference between information and meaning.”
― Warren Bennis
“The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.”
― Wayne Gretzky
“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
― Wendell Phillips
“How many soaps does P&G make? In a sense, they’re all the same. Can you tell me the difference between trading soybeans, cotton and rubber? They’re all soaps to us.”
― Whitney MacMillan
“Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.”
― Wil Wheaton
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
― Will Rogers
“The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.”
― Will Rogers
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
― Will Rogers
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
― William Hazlitt
“The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.”
― William Henry Bragg
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James
“Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.”
― William James
“Let’s hope the Canadian public sector starts putting the blockchain on their agenda so we can see a significant difference in how government services are delivered.”
― William Mougayar
“The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.”
― Wilson Mizner
“I don’t say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years.”
― Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
― Winston Churchill
“This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema – Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.”
― Wong Kar-wai
“Left wing, chicken wing, it don’t make no difference to me.”
― Woody Guthrie
“Have you driven a Rolls-Royce? There is a difference between a Rolls-Royce and a Nano.”
― Yo Yo Honey Singh
“The Taj Mahal can be a tourist attraction, an architectural marvel, but it can never be treated as a monument of faith. After all, there is a difference between tourism and faith.”
― Yogi Adityanath
“I think there is no difference between the language of Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed.”
― Yogi Adityanath
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
― Yogi Berra
“The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.”
― Yves Saint Laurent
“You can’t state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.”
― Zadie Smith
“Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.”
― Zig Ziglar
“It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”
― Zig Ziglar
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