Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
Ernestine L. Rose

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

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
Lajos Kossuth

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

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
Ben Hecht

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian Mckellen

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

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
Bruce Sterling

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
Wentworth Miller

I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.
Maynard James Keenan

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

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.
David Chalmers

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
John Polkinghorne

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement Attlee