#more or less

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. ↗

— Earl Warren

#hearts #how #i #irresistible #just

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

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#less #make #me #more #more or less

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way. ↗

— Ben Webster

#because #better #check #could #done

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total. ↗

— Paul Darrow

#decide #deliver #different #different aspects #going

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. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#acted #always #art #been #conceive

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

— Douglas Feith

#back #been #between #decade #going

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

#actually #back #be careful #careful #come

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything. They're best friends. They've been keeping each other alive. It's a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#anything #been #beginning #best #brother