Words matter. These are the best More Or Less Quotes from famous people such as Alessandra Ambrosio, G. Stanley Hall, Oneohtrix Point Never, Adrian McKinty, Michael Pollan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you’re pregnant you just want to be comfortable – but I wear more or less the same as I do when I’m not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I’ll want the floaty dresses!
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.
Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
When someone has 100 international games more or less in a row then that’s top class.
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.
I remember being awed by it – the uniqueness and nicety of style – and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early ’90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
We did all the strategy right on the field. Today, the coaches call all the plays, so all the quarterbacks have to do is perform. They are more or less programmed.
I’ve stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.
Before, I’d photograph anything. I didn’t think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
‘One Minus One’ and ‘Barcelona, 1975’ are more or less autobiographical.
I’m a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don’t think in these terms. I’m more simple than that. I’m a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.
My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family.
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.
One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don’t realize this, but he’s the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!
My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it’s not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It’s because of Beyonce’s handbags.
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I’ve been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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.
My career’s been a bumpy road, but at the same time I think I am living proof that if you put enough work into things you decide more or less where you want to end up.
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.
I feel that, in India, we have films that have tackled various issues over the years, but perhaps one of the issues that we’ve tackled less is the issue of caste-ism. That’s an issue we’ve more or less stayed away from… although we touched on it briefly in some films like ‘Lagaan.’
I’ve been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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.
That’s been one of the best things about doing ‘Game of Thrones.’ My social circle in London has more or less doubled just by doing it because nearly everyone is based in London. And I hadn’t long moved to London before doing it, so it’s been really great in terms of meeting people to hang out with while I’m there.
Unlike life, you’ve got more or less complete control over what’s going on in your stories. That’s not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to – they usually have a life of their own if you’ve done your job properly.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
When I played in Belgium, Germany and England, their cultures were similar, more or less, because these clubs are all in Europe.
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.
I don’t fall into the category of tortured artist. But it’s not made me more or less anything.
I’m not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
I realized that I’m increasingly in a position where I know a network of people, and I’m able to connect more or less anyone.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what’s going on.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I’m terrified of boring an audience.
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
At the beginning, it is all about fun. I had a lot of fun. But then, when I was 10 years old, more or less, I had a coach who said that I had a strange running style. I was about to leave… I had a decision to take: if I leave or if I stay, but as a goalkeeper.
My own interest in Kafka’s letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas.
I’ve always believed the better the players I’m surrounded by, the better I am. I’ve never tried to think of myself as anything different. I know who I am as a basketball player and I’m never going to try to pretend that I’m more or less, but definitely not more.
