Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
I feel more Scottish than Norman.
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.
The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.
I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
There's more to life than listening to rock music.
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
I am more than happy that I did 'Kuch Rang.' Really proud to be a part of this show.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.' You know, I'm not. I'm a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. I'm more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. I'm more proactive about my health.
