So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up in the '80s, so that's more of an interesting time to me.
I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.
I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.
Obviously the more pucks you get to the net, the more the percentages go up.
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
