People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
