Quotes About Distinction

the awareness that the distinction between "over here" and "over there," or between "home" and "abroad" is often a false one has never left me.

Meine Gunst? Ich sagte, er sei kein kompletter Schwachmat. Das ist keine Gunst, das ist nur ein wohlwollender Vergleich mit all den anderen, von denen du umgeben bist

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

It was the "leisure-class" world, and the people in it were proud of the fact that they had never done and didn't know how to do anything useful. The farther back they could trace an ancestry which had never done it, the more distinguished they were.

What is, is, and what isn't, isn't.

secondary or insufficiently individualistic to warrant merit.

Humor was a form of survival, since it created a necessary psychic distinction from slavery.

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.

One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.

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That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

What a paradox, what a fearful reproach, when the distinction of a few hundred miles — nay, as many feet or even inches! — can transform heinous crime to simple unqualified circumstance!

The problem is: income inequality is getting greater. There is no denying that. But this is not a distinction between Owner / Employee. This is a distinction between those with the Rich Employee mindset versus those with the Poor Employee mindset.

It's important to realize that what's most important is paying attention to the things that are not important.

When there are a dozen Babe Ruths, there are none.

Mediocrity is underrated.

I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.