In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.
We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s.
When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.
Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.
Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!
