Quotes About Distinction

I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a "realization of solitude" that goes like this: I'm lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I'd never felt more godforsaken in my life. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what you're not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? - but generally see a distinction between lying on the page and lying off it.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.

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

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

On one occasion I saw a banner where my name read 'Sarvasri Bharat Balachandra Menon.' I was amused and decided to find out the reason for this coinage. One of the organizers confessed rather sheepishly that they were sure about me getting the Bharat award but were doubtful if I was a Padma Shri awardee.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

And it enjoyed one other distinction: The Hilton had been, since the day it opened, one of the few civilized establishments in Turkey where a well-heeled gentleman and a courageous lady could obtain a room without being asked for a marriage certificate.

There is a danger the wheat might burn with the chaff.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Host and sorrow to waste as one without distinction until the wretched coagulant is shoveled into the ground at last and the rain primes the stones for fresh tragedies.

Each memory but a memory of the one before until…What? Host and sorrow to waste as one without distinction until the wretched coagulant is shoved into the ground at last and the rain primes the stones for fresh tragedies.

guess he said cattle could tell the difference between a flight of geese and a cat on fire. Maybe

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.