Quotes on Difference

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.

Author: Brooks Adams

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.

Author: Douglas Adams

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.

Author: Henry Adams

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Author: Joey Adams

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Author: Clay Aiken

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

Author: Clay Aiken

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Author: Aristotle

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.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

Author: John Ashcroft

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

Author: Leon Askin

The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.

Author: Bille August

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.

Author: Charles Babbage

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Author: Steve Ballmer

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Author: Maurice Baring

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Author: Charles Barkley

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

Author: John Barrow

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.

Author: Ethel Barrymore

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

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.

Author: Edmund Barton

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.

Author: David Beckham

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

Author: Monica Bellucci

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.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

Author: Bo Bennett

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Author: Warren Bennis

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Author: Yogi Berra

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Author: Ronald Biggs

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Author: Josh Billings

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

Author: Cilla Black

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Author: Tom Bodett

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Author: Edward Bono

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

Author: Sean Booth

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Author: Tom Brokaw

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

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.

Author: James Brown

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

Don't be afraid to stand out in a crowd, for it is in embracing your uniqueness that you will find true fulfillment.

Author: Angela Davis

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Author: Earl Butz

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Author: Maria Callas

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

Author: Cab Calloway

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

Author: Cab Calloway

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Author: Matt Cameron

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Author: Al Capp

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Author: Liz Carpenter

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

Author: Nick Cave

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

Author: Neil Cavuto

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Author: Paul Celan

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Author: Martin Chemnitz

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

Author: Gary Cherone

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Author: Tom Clancy

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

Author: Ty Cobb

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett

There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!

Author: Sean Connery

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

Author: Kenneth Cooper

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

Author: Kenny Cunningham

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Author: Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Author: Salvador Dali

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Author: Salvador Dali

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

Author: Rebecca Davis

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

Author: David Dinkins

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

Author: Finley Dunne

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.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Author: Dale Earnhardt

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Author: Manfred Eigen

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Author: George Eliot

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.

Author: Hector Elizondo

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Author: Euripides

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Author: Bob Feller

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

Author: Sherilyn Fenn

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Author: Steve Forbert

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Author: David Friedman

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Author: Max Frisch

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Author: Robert Frost

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Author: R. Fuller

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Author: Megan Gallagher

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

Author: James Galway

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Author: Greta Garbo

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Author: Martin Gardner

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.

Author: Marc Garneau

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

Author: Steve Garvey

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.

Author: Lou Gehrig

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

Author: David Gest

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

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.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

Author: Herman Gorter

Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.

Author: Herman Gorter

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Author: Woody Guthrie

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Author: Gene Hackman

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.

Author: William Hazlitt

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Author: Denis Healey

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

Author: Jim Henson

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

Author: Jim Henson

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Author: Martina Hingis

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Author: Dee Hock

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.

Author: Harri Holkeri

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Author: Marilyn Horne

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

Author: Rogers Hornsby

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

Author: Terrence Howard

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.

Author: John Hull

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Author: Reggie Jackson

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.

Author: Bianca Jagger

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Author: William James

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Author: Penn Jillette

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Author: Jimmy Johnson

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

Author: Nancy Johnson

Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.

Author: Robert Kagan

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

Author: Herman Kahn

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

Author: Walter Kaufmann

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Author: John Keats

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Author: Thomas Kempis

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Author: Charles Kettering

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Author: Charles Kettering

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

Author: Sean Kinney

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Author: Klaus Kinski

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.

Author: Frank Knight

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!

Author: Vladimir Kramnik

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

Author: Dennis Kucinich

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

Author: Fiorello LaGuardia

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

Author: Ted Lange

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.

Author: James Laughlin

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

Author: Nigella Lawson

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Author: Annie Leibovitz

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Author: Tom Leykis

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Author: Audre Lorde

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

Author: Lydia Lunch

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

Author: Wangari Maathai

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

Author: Ali MacGraw

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Author: Gustav Mahler

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.

Author: Maimonides

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

Author: Marilyn Manson

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

Author: Marilyn Manson

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Author: Henri Matisse

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

Author: Chris Matthews

A good video can make all the difference.

Author: Brian May

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

Author: Martina McBride

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Author: John McCarthy

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

Author: John McGahern

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

Author: Kendrick Meek

What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.

Author: John Mellencamp

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Author: Ethel Merman

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.

Author: Nicholas Meyer