Different Quotes - Page 298

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. A Russian state was created around Kiev about 1,200 years ago. Ukraine itself has been part of Russia for 500 years, and I would say most Russians consider it part of Russian patrimony. The ideal solution would be to have a Ukraine like Finland or Austria that can be a bridge between these two rather than an outpost.

My view is that we will still have many different categories of cars in the future.

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.

Germans argue with the Americans about many things, from the death penalty to the relationship between security and freedom. We have to be honest about these differences. And yet, whenever we quarrel with the Americans, it amounts to controversies over different interpretations of values we share. You can't say that about Russia. Vladimir Putin fundamentally questions Western values.

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

Things appear different from every different plane from which you look at them, and when a person standing on flat earth asks a person standing on top of a mountain, "Do you also believe something?" the person cannot tell much. The questioner must come to the top of the mountain and see. There can be no link of conversation between them until that time.

Spend your 'different points' wisely.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.