One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars. – Richard Corliss
There’s a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers. – Peter Landesman
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us. – Richard Francis Burton
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big. – Richard Powers
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron. – Pieter Zeeman
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. – Roy Blount, Jr.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. – Robert Heller
I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I’m actually shocked that there isn’t more of a meld between our two industries. – Rob Lowe
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. – Oliver Goldsmith
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West
HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling. – Pete Gallego
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both. – Peter Orszag
I do flip between being chatty and argumentative – and being a psycho-loner werewolf. – Peter Hammill
Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan. – Salman Rushdie
The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice. – Roger Wicker
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don’t know. – Robert Fitzgerald
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. – Richard Stallman
There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too. – Peter Shilton
With thrillers, there’s such a fine line between what’s good and what’s cheesy and corny. – Olivia d’Abo
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. – Richard Dawkins
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. – Pim Fortuyn
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. – Paul Watzlawick