Quotes

Mickey Mantle photo

“Later on they tend to get longer than they really were.”

Mickey Mantle (1931–1995) Professional baseball player

As quoted in "IT'S OUTTA HEEERRE!!! : A New Generation of Sluggers Invites Tape-Measure Comparisons" http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-21/sports/sp-26487_1_home-run by Ross Newhan, in The Los Angeles Times (Monday, July 21, 1986)

Robert T. Kiyosaki photo

“Poor people are more greedy than rich people”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

Fernando Pessoa photo

“My heart is a little larger than the entire universe.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
"Saí do comboio" (4 July 1934), trans. Richard Zenith.

Isaac Leib Peretz photo

“We are more than a people…. We are of a pure blood.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

Verk, edited by Kletzkin, xi. 277.

Barack Obama photo

“Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Interview by David Remnick at the American Magazine Conference (23 October 2006) http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/barack_obama_i_inhaled_that_was_the_point_46068.asp
2006

“(The Constitution is) nothing less than a fraud on the Fijian people.”

Apisai Tora (1934) Fijian politician

Senate speech, 24 August 2004 (excerpts)

Joseph Smith, Jr. photo

“A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.”

History of the Church, 4:588 (10 April 1842)
1840s

Djuna Barnes photo

“There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.”

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist

In a letter to Emily Coleman, as quoted in The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems : Selected Poems (2003), edited by Rebecca Loncraine, p. xi

Gene Wolfe photo

“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”

Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
Fiction

Miguel de Cervantes photo

“You can see farther into a millstone than he.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 28.

Dejan Stojanovic photo

“Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

Rain http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rain-199/
From the poems written in English

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe photo

“Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
Maxim 542, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. (231)
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

#55
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

"Weird Al" Yankovic photo

“I'm nerdy in the extreme
Whiter than sour cream”

"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist

"White & Nerdy".
Song lyrics

“I'd rather lie down than jump up.”

Mixmaster Morris (1965) English ambient DJ

i-D Magazine, 1994. Said in response to the musical style known as "jump up".

Charles Stross photo

“Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.”

Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 13, “Jokers” (p. 280)

Roy Hattersley photo

“Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.”

Roy Hattersley (1932) British Labour Party politician, published author and journalist

The Guardian, 30 September 1988

Larry Wall photo

“I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Robert Jordan photo

“I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1993)

Vladimir Lenin photo

“International unity of the workers is more important than the national.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Letter to Inessa Armand (20 November 1916) Collected Works, Vol. 35, pp. 246-247.
1910s