I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows.
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Kay Eiffel: [narrating] Why was Harold talking to this man? This man was an idiot.
The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your ...
Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
