All Quotes

The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
‐‐ Jimmy Johnson

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
‐‐ James Thurber

The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
‐‐ Richard Rorty

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
‐‐ Joey Adams

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
‐‐ Allan Sherman

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
‐‐ Iman

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
‐‐ Bob Feller

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
‐‐ Helene D. Gayle

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
‐‐ Mae Jemison

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.
‐‐ John Seabrook

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
‐‐ Neal Stephenson

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

The difference between style and fashion is quality.
‐‐ Giorgio Armani

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
‐‐ Denis Healey

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
‐‐ Mark Twain

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
‐‐ Phil Collins

The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
‐‐ Edmund Barton

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
‐‐ Berenice Bejo

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
‐‐ Eric Sevareid

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
‐‐ Cal Thomas

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
‐‐ Steve Garvey

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
‐‐ Guy Davenport

The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.
‐‐ Poliana Okimoto

The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
‐‐ Taylor Hanson

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
‐‐ Aaron Allston

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
‐‐ Edwin Way Teale

The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
‐‐ Zack Snyder

The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.
‐‐ Peter Thomson

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.
‐‐ Sherilyn Fenn

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
‐‐ Tammy Blanchard

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.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
‐‐ Sean Kinney