Quotes of: More-than-anything Keyword

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

James Denton

I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actual...

Jude the Obscure

Bryn,” he said. “Do you know how much I love you?” I smiled and answered with a hint of sarcasm in my tone, “Well, I’m not quite sure.” “No, I’m serious,” Tyler said, turning over onto his side so that he was facing me. His eyes wer...

More Than You Know

Don't we all have a certain number of images that stay around in our head, which we undoubtedly call memories and improperly so, and which we can never get rid of because they return in our sky with the regularity of a comet - torn away also from a w...

Oblivion

The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...

The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

But no, music lasted longer than anything it inspired. After LPs, cassettes, and CDs, when matrimony was about to decay into its component elements—alimony and acrimony—the songs startled him and regained all their previous, pre-Rachel meanings, ...

The Song Is You

I want you to know that if I could've stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could. I will never understand why I had to be taken from you so soon, but I have accepted it. Yet I want you to know that there is nothing more important to me...

One Summer

You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no longer there--the sodden gray yard, the dog droppings, the tire tracks in the frozen mud, the broken lawn chair you forgot to take in last fall. All th...

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have...

Kafka on the Shore

Colonel Nicholson: [looks at the completed bridge] I've been thinking. Tomorrow it will be 28 years to the day that I've been in the service. 28 years in peace and war. I don't suppose I've been at home more than 10 months in all that time. Still, it...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Freedom Evolves

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

The Bitter Kingdom

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.

Charles Saatchi

Contrast and compliment. The blue is never more blue than it is when paired with orange. And the orange is never bluer than when eaten on a cloud in the sky.

$3.33

They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever could.

548 Heartbeats

Why are you smiling like that?" "I'm just happy." "Why?" "Because you're here. You're real. And you're mine.

More Than Him

Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.

More Than Words Can Say: The Making of Inspired Speakers

What do you want from me?" he asked hesitantly. "Your trust," i answered without any hesitation.

More than Scars

I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't

More Than This

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

Northwest Corner

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups