“Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?”
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Haruki Murakami655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
“Can you tell the difference between them?”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said to United States President Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with the Chinese and Russian ambassadors along with David Cameron, "Prince Philip makes a faux pas" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXKMIDbUbQ8 at Youtube (1 April 2009) <br class="br">2000s
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“The sea
Of the changeable reflections
Under rain.”
Charles Trenet (1913–2001) French singer-songwriter
"La Mer" (1943) - Live performance by Trenet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYj1-3QrrY - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_nopTFuZA - "Beyond the Sea" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEIDep_UMmk, an adaptation of the music of "La Mer", sung by Bobby Darin <br class="br">Context: The sea<br>This one seen to dance alongside the clear gulfs<br>To the reflections silver<br>The sea<br>Of the changeable reflections<br>Under rain.
“I can tell the difference between senseless terror and justifiable rebellion.”
Ayad Allawi (1945) Iraqi politician
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) Dutch painter
version in Dutch (citaat van Israëls, in het Nederlands): Is er een verschil tussen een joodse zee en een niet-joodse zee? Wat is een joodse manier van schilderen?
Quote of Israëls in a talk with N. Sokolov, c. 1910's; published in Ishim part 3. by Sokolov (written in Hebrew); Tel Aviv, 1935, pp. 151-169
Quotes of Jozef Israels, after 1900
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.”
Lloyd Bentsen (1921–2006) American politician
Apparent 1985 coining of the term astroturfing, meaning "creating or operating fake 'grass-roots' campaigns"
Cited in [Young, Henry, 2 November 2009, Astroturf Lobbying Organizations: Do Fake Grassroots Need Real Regulation, Illinois Business Law Journal, http://www.law.uiuc.edu/bljournal/post/2009/11/02/Astroturf-Lobbying-Organizations-Do-Fake-Grassroots-Need-Real-Regulation.aspx, 2010-03-27]
Deepak Chopra (1946) Indian-American physician, public speaker and writer
The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life (2004)