Distinction famous quotes

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
-- Agatha Christie

#Sitting #Tables #Distinction

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Men #Devotion #Distinction

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Fool #Incapacity #Distinction

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.
-- Andrew Weil

#Healing #Mind #Distinction

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Moments #Excuse #Distinction

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Law #Immigration #Distinction

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
-- Bell Hooks

#Men #Distinction #Threat

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Teenager #Sometimes #Distinction

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
-- Bill Brandt

#Photographer #Produce #Distinction

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
-- Bobby Darin

#Comedian #Comic #Distinction

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Moments #Distinction #Rejects

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.
-- Charles Darwin

#Belief #Latter #Distinction

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
-- David Antin

#Distinction #Unsatisfied

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
-- E. M. Forster

#Literature #Notable #Distinction

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
-- Edward Coke

#Coke #Lord #Distinction

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
-- Edward Tufte

#Simplicity #Subtle #Distinction

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
-- Elliot S. Maggin

#Two #Morality #Distinction

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
-- Freeman Dyson

#Religion #Mind #Distinction

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Noses #Logic #Distinction

The highest of distinctions is service to others.
-- George IV of the United Kingdom

#Volunteer #Service To Others #Distinction

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
-- Gregg Braden

#Real #Distinction #Imaginary

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
-- Harold Pinter

#Real #Literature #Distinction

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
-- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#Differences #Distinction #Preservation

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Made #Distinction #Goods

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
-- Jim Allchin

#Running #Distinction #Operating Systems

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
-- Jim Butcher

#Evil #Doe #Distinction

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
-- Joan Miro

#Painting #Distinction

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
-- Joely Fisher

#College #Distinction #Alumni

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
-- John George Nicolay

#Law #West #Distinction

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
-- John Major

#Thinking #Distinction #Wells

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed
-- John Searle

#Subjectivity #Conscious #Distinction

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction
-- Jurgen Habermas

#Fundamentals #Starting #Distinction

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
-- K. D. Lang

#Distinction

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
-- Kate Flannery

#People #Sick #Distinction

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#May #Social #Distinction

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.
-- Keshub Chandra Sen

#India #Distinction #Curse

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.
-- Kevin Powers

#Distinction #Remembered

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
-- Lawrence Wright

#Irs #Distinction

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
-- Lin Yutang

#Medicine #Chinese #Distinction

Art is anything people do with distinction.
-- Louis Dudek

#Art #People #Distinction

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
-- Maggie Nelson

#Art #Made #Distinction

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Numbers #Distinction #Chiefs

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
-- Maurice Saatchi

#Mind #Distinction #Should

The highest distinction is service to others.
-- Max Brooks

#Service To Others #Distinction

We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.
-- Michael Fox

#Animal #Animal Rights #Distinction

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.
-- Mike Lee

#Differences #Way #Distinction

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
-- Minna Antrim

#Achieve #Distinction #Hated

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
-- Nathaniel Parker

#Cities #Distinction #Thousand

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#People #Distinction #Virtuous

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,
-- Nick Denton

#Collaboration #Should #Distinction

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
-- Norton Juster

#Book #Good Book #Distinction

We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity.
-- Omar Bakri Muhammad

#Sanctity #Distinction #Values

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.
-- Pascal Mercier

#People #Distinction #Reader

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
-- Patrick Henry

#Revolution #American Revolution #Distinction

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.
-- Paul Crouch

#Unions #Distinction #Trinity

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
-- Peter Kropotkin

#Distinction #States #Form

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.
-- Robert Burchfield

#Distinction #Antidote #Vulgarity

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
-- Robert Frost

#Baseball #Writing #Distinction

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.
-- Rod McKuen

#World #Needs #Distinction

Death and the dice level all distinctions.
-- Samuel Foote

#Dice #Levels #Distinction

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.
-- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#Practice #Theory #Distinction

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Intellectual #Distinction #Historian

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
-- Thorstein Veblen

#Honor #Wealth #Distinction

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Simplicity #Distinction #Mark

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
-- Washington Allston

#Mind #Great Minds #Distinction

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
-- Wentworth Miller

#Littles #Transformation #Distinction

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much
-- Whitfield Diffie

#People #Distinction

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.
-- Wilhelm Ostwald

#Development #Reactions #Distinction

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#May #Comfort #Distinction

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
-- William Gilmore Simms

#Greatness #Distinction #Expenses

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
-- Flann O'Brien

#Enough #Said #Distinction

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.
-- Matt Tong

#Art #Lows #Distinction

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.
-- Tim O'Brien

#Brave #Important #Distinction

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
-- Curtis Hanson

#Lovers #Distinction #Storyteller