Difference Quotes

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

If you care enough, you make a difference.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

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.