My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
A dancer's life is as peripatetic and unstable as that of an actor's. You're freelancing yourself all the time, and a dancer's lifespan is even shorter than an actor's: once they turn 30 or 35, they have to stop.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.
As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not, if a woman goes in to ask for a raise, she'll get it. But she's thinking, 'Do I deserve it? I've got to give a list of why I deserve it.' Whereas a man will just go in and ask for a raise. It's so scary.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.
I think that some works are more accessible than others.
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
Nobody loves a good 'Batman' story more than I do.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
