Than Quotes · Page 136

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with…

— Rachel Cusk

I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don't want to sacrifice time…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they…

— Gavin O'Connor

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one…

— Jesus Christ

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather…

— Jackie Speier

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

— Christian McKay

Being explosive on the feet is different than grappling, with the squeezing and pushing and pulling. It's different on your muscles.

— Chad Mendes

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything…

— Laila Robins

Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got…

— FKA twigs

We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for…

— Gabe Newell

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who…

— Stephen J. Cannell

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may…

— Jennifer Granholm

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get…

— Mark Steyn

Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more…

— Larry Smith

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of…

— Bruce Lipton

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you,…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to…

— Vinnie Jones

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing…

— Osman Rashid

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you…

— Vinny Testaverde

We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

— Laurence D. Fink

Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why…

— Julie Gayet

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity…

— Steve Largent

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.

— Ray Winstone

I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more…

— Rafael Nadal

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

— Ivan Krastev

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

— Stephen Kinzer

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through…

— Lleyton Hewitt

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says…

— John Cassavetes

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

— Peter Morgan

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

— Bruce Jackson

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

— Stephen Hawking

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me,…

— Pam Ferris

I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else…

— Lykke Li

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -…

— Robert Gottlieb

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

— Evangeline Lilly

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

— Henry Kravis

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the…

— Daniel Morgan

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

— Cornel West