Between Quotes

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

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.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.