All Quotes

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
‐‐ John Scalzi

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
‐‐ Richard Bach

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
‐‐ George MacDonald

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
‐‐ Kenneth Oppel

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
‐‐ Steven Pressfield

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
‐‐ Nick Cave

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.
‐‐ Mikheil Saakashvili

The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
‐‐ Dan Byrd

The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.
‐‐ Robert LaSardo

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
‐‐ James Allen

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
‐‐ Earl Nightingale

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
‐‐ Judith Rossner

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
‐‐ Sting

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
‐‐ Georges St-Pierre

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
‐‐ Tony Orlando

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
‐‐ Hans-Georg Gadamer

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
‐‐ Upamanyu Chatterjee

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
‐‐ David E. Kelley

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.
‐‐ Judy Gold

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
‐‐ Theo Van Gogh

The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
‐‐ Brandon Sanderson

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.
‐‐ Christopher Alexander

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
‐‐ Tatum O'Neal

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
‐‐ Confucius

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.
‐‐ Jennifer Palmieri

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
‐‐ Jonathan Coe

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.
‐‐ David Guetta

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
‐‐ Rodney Stark

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
‐‐ Emma McLaughlin

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg