Separates Quotes

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.