Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word ‘commercial’ because that’s how you make a business.

Less is more”, is an expression from the Robert Browning ballad, in the 18th century. Today, it is utilised by many, especially my dad in addressing my looks. It was also a tune by one...

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes – to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree – invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but...

Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back...

This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don’t particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy...

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It’s so easy to get into that rut of production.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

I eat less, stretch, and work out.

On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had...

There’s no story if there isn’t some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it’s more or less the...

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it’s a fair fight in the marketplace.

One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I’d turn up my nose and tell...

I couldn’t care less about who sees my bits… My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn’t like that. My bits looked the size of a...

If organized religion has become less relevant, it’s not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs – it’s because they’ve held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It’s just very public when they fail.

I think it’s common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when...

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away...

The world’s major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn’t really fall into ‘the Disney mold.’ I was more or less the...

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

The media could do a much better job, that’s for sure, especially the media that targets women… Human rights? They couldn’t care less!

It’s better to err on the side of more, than less, except if you’re talking about killing people with the last name of Moore.

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power – and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less...

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a...

The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or...

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may...

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will...

I do know some of the world’s richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

I’m less Pollyanna now. That’s probably healthy.

Generally, I don’t like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I’ve always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the...

I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it’s around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they’re...

I don’t want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than...

Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those...