#distinction

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#awarded #because #college #distinction #finish

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #books #children #distinction #either

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#deserving #distinction #everybody #honor #i

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#arbitrary #clinical #distinctions #illegal #legal

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#between #both #cloth #concerned #distinction

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#depression #distinction #ever #had #him

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

— Washington Allston

#distinction #great #great mind #mind #never

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. ↗

— David Antin

#before #between #children #distinction #frequently

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#capable #difference #distinction #explanation #limit

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#play #racial #role #should