Between Quotes

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

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

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

I think the durability of the sedan as well as its worldwide appeal argues well for it as a concept that resonates with people's ideas about how their lives are oriented. They understand the difference between an area for powertrain, an area for people, and an area for their stuff.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

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

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.