Difference Quotes

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.

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

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

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

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

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.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

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.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

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

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

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.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

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.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

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

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.