All Quotes

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
‐‐ F. Murray Abraham

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
‐‐ Homer

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
‐‐ Henry Home

The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.
‐‐ Denny Rehberg

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.
‐‐ John Mulaney

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
‐‐ Paul Bettany

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
‐‐ Zane Grey

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
‐‐ M. Scott Peck

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
‐‐ Judi Dench

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
‐‐ Shana Alexander

The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have budget constraints; you can cast it yourself.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
‐‐ Peter De Vries

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
‐‐ Olivier Dahan

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
‐‐ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
‐‐ Ivan Pavlov

The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.
‐‐ Antonio Perez

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

The digital explosion has been so explosive.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.
‐‐ Joel Sternfeld

The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.
‐‐ Eduardo Paes

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
‐‐ Ken Auletta

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
‐‐ Douglas Engelbart

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
‐‐ Eric Topol

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'
‐‐ Eric Topol

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place.
‐‐ Mira Nair

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
‐‐ Marc Chagall

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
‐‐ Laurent Lamothe

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
‐‐ Tipper Gore

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski

The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie - the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
‐‐ Paul Lynde