More Or Less Quotes (page 10)

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• time
• dating
• attention

Is it necessary to add that the echoes of many characteristic tales, dating from that picturesque time, still linger about here, in more or less fragmentary form to be caught by the attentive ear? Some of them I have repeated; most of them I have forgotten; one I have never repeated, and assuredly can never forget. Thomas Hardy

• people
• equality
• manners

The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable. William S. Burroughs

• different
• sharing
• world

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. Roger Moore

• sports
• acceptance
• rather

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. Althea Gibson

• education
• black
• culture

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. Henry Louis Gates

• shopping
• street
• sky

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. Neil Gaiman

• thinking
• writing
• hard

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. Jonathan Franzen

• history
• histories
• less is more

History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford

• change
• second chance
• chance

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford

• thinking
• parted
• obscenity

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Jock Sturges

• caring
• saying
• my own

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. Brian Ferneyhough

• government
• backed
• backing

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. Douglas Feith

• thinking
• game
• exercise

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Jacques Ellul

• colorful
• character
• manly

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Frederick Douglass

• love
• pain
• people

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. Casper Van Dien