Than Quotes · Page 59

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

— Phaneesh Murthy

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

— Erika Christensen

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

— Ron Johnson

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

— Thomas Hearns

Take what life gives you if there is no more than a second chance.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

— Laraine Day

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

— LZ Granderson

The East is tougher than a lot of people give us credit for.

— Jayson Tatum

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot…

— Richard Armitage

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

— Martin Seligman

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

— John Madden

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

— Charles Duhigg

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

— Anthony Rapp

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated…

— Robin Williams

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters…

— Paul Harris

Regular school is one bajillion times easier than online school. I want friends; I want a social life. I want that experience…

— Grace VanderWaal

I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and…

— Tom Scholz

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but…

— Richard Dawkins

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that,…

— Andrew McCarthy

I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question,…

— Zoe Sugg

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people…

— Andrew Stanton

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster.…

— Maira Kalman

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is…

— Georg Simmel

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be…

— Joseph Altuzarra

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

— Jim Coleman

Nothing is more unappealing than running against a colleague.

— Marcy Kaptur

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

— Hal Roach

I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

— Anonymous

In our minds maybe we think we're younger than we actually are.

— Tony Kanal

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

— Paul Ince

The fact that I know a wine glass rather than a champagne glass is etiquette.

— Dorit Kemsley

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

— Laura Mvula

I prefer building rather than fundraising.

— Travis Kalanick

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

— Michael Kiwanuka

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Winning ballgames is a lot better than losing, that's for sure.

— Nolan Arenado

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

— Whitey Ford

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

— Jim Acosta

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

— Jacqueline Novogratz