All Quotes

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
‐‐ Tom Bodett

The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
‐‐ John Hurt

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating.
‐‐ Scott Westerfeld

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
‐‐ I. F. Stone

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
‐‐ Edward Albee

The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.
‐‐ Kygo

The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

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.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
‐‐ Tom Clancy

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
‐‐ Alan Ball

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.
‐‐ Catfish Hunter

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
‐‐ David Chipperfield

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.
‐‐ Doug TenNapel

The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.
‐‐ John Burnham Schwartz

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
‐‐ Nelson Boswell

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.
‐‐ Juan Enriquez

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
‐‐ Neal Stephenson

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
‐‐ Ludwig Borne

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
‐‐ Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.
‐‐ Aram Saroyan

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
‐‐ Maxine Hong Kingston

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
‐‐ Robert Heller

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
‐‐ Joan Chen

The difference between me and most Protestants is most Protestants have no problem at all saying 'The Lord told me this' or 'The Lord told me that,' but they won't believe that the Lord speaks through the pope. You know, at least this guy has some credentials.
‐‐ Rich Mullins

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
‐‐ Daryl Hall

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
‐‐ Ricky Skaggs

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
‐‐ Chris Matthews

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.
‐‐ Mario Batali

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
‐‐ Bruce Dern

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
‐‐ Thomas Arnold