Famous Quotes & Sayings

We sensed it (was sloppy), but we just wanted to be the less sloppy.

Ben Jonson

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

The question is: What can we do for less money? What can we do for the man who has $200,000? ... We're working on that.

Towns at the lower end are receiving less than they should, and towns at the upper end are receiving more than they should.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Marian Keyes

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.

Gunther Schuller

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.

Sebastian Thrun

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

Greg Boyle

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

Tommy Mottola

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Waris Ahluwalia

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

Allen Klein

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

Leila Janah

I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.

Jay Weatherill

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

Mike Mills

To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

Lynn Coady

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

Robert Capa

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

William Campbell

We actually know less about the new machines than we did six months ago.

Betty White

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.

There is lots of supply and less demand, and the price has been going down.

There is less work to be garnered out there and this is a way to do it.

Daria Werbowy

I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.

Livy

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

We are seeing less prostitution on the road.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Aeschylus

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

Aeschylus

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

Adriana Trigiani

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Sigourney Weaver

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

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