Between Quotes

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.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.