Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.
My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.
When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.
Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.
No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that.
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
