Less Quotes

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

The more wit the less courage.

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.