Quotes About Distinction

This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles.

The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.

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

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that.

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

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

During a period of life when most of us do not have fancy watches or cars, music becomes a cheap, socially important signal of distinction. We are trying on, like silk-screened T-shirts, various identities.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Our society doesn't have the proper respect for magna cum laude

If everything is important, nothing is

Se ci pensi, quand'è che cominciamo a fare delle distinzioni tra quel che è giusto e quel che è sbagliato? Quando qualcosa ci ferisce o minaccia di farlo.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

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.