For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more...

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and...

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally...

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared – they’ll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to...

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about...

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less...

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant – it seems to...

I think that when you’re kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you’re facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden,...

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they’re supposed to happen and the way they’re supposed to happen.

I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don’t eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares – like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there’s less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it – and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have...

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl’s life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show...

My administration’s compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran’s nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on...

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he’s noticed.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait,...

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don’t accept anything less.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you’ll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the...

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug....

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

To be happy, count your blessings and discount the lessings.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity –...

I’m so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain’t affecting my life at all.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we...

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy’s prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can’t use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut...

We all know what is meant by the term ‘international community,’ don’t we? It’s the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term ‘international community’ is a way of dignifying the West, of...

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

‘Homeland’ really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what’s kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because...

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to...

Although women do two-thirds of the world’s labor, they own less than one percent of the world’s assets.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

I’m fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it’s about immediate delivery. There’s less risk and less art.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I’m going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if...