Less Quotes

I've always been about less government.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.