“It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Inscription for a Sundial at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka (1996) http://www.ent.mrt.ac.lk/~rohan/career/projects/sundial/sundial.html <br class="br">1990s
“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)
“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!
“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.
“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.
“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 <br class="br">2006
“(The Constitution is) nothing less than a fraud on the Fijian people.”
Apisai Tora (1934) Fijian politician
Senate speech, 24 August 2004 (excerpts)
“A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.”
Joseph Smith, Jr. book History of the Church
History of the Church, 4:588 (10 April 1842)
1840s
“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
“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”
Gene Wolfe book Home Fires
Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
Fiction
“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.
“Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Rain http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rain-199/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“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)
“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".
“Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.”
Charles Stross book Singularity Sky
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 13, “Jokers” (p. 280)
“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
“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
“I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1993)
