#more or less

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#happened #less #more #more or less #much

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#angeles #availability #coconut #committed #dinner

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit. ↗

— Edmund White

#crying #ecological #empty #even #far

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #anymore #bridge #card #even

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#down #get #job #keep #less

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#less #mad #more #more or less #point

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ↗

— George Santayana

#each #enabling #fortifying #help #human

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

#anyway #care #caring #dedicate #happen

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#down #guitar #guitar playing #guitar solos #hooks

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

— Jock Sturges

#any #anything #before #body #i