Difference Quotes - page 3

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. (Gertrude Stein)
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. View quote
Walter Raleigh
It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. View quote
Steven Wright
There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't. View quote
John le Carré
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. View quote
Neil Gaiman
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. View quote
Margot Fonteyn
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. View quote
Rebecca West
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither. (Oscar Wilde)
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. View quote
Serge Lang
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. View quote
Douglas Adams
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. View quote
Audre Lorde
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. View quote
Wendell Phillips
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. View quote
Salvador Dalí
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. View quote
Henri Matisse
We must all suffer from one of two pains the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. View quote
Jim Rohn