Between Quotes

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

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

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

There are notes between notes, you know.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.