More Or Less Quotes

160 quotes by 153 authors

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… — Paul Auster
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI
The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of… — Annie Besant
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. — Alvar Aalto
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring… — William S. Burroughs
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting,… — Summer Altice
There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and… — Wes Anderson
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James
I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. — Casper Van Dien
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. — Althea Gibson
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? — Margaret Oliphant
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the… — Isabelle Huppert
I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in… — David Cross
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you… — Leslie Caron
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew… — Diane Cilento
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into… — Laurie Anderson
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has… — Christian Lous Lange

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