#than

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. ↗

— Joan Miro

#box #certain #cigarette #contains #human

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#blight #blossoms #cheerful #count #far

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #be happy #difficult #easy #happier

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#i #know #mile #own #rather

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. ↗

— Moby

#getting #i #i am #laid #lot

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. ↗

— Art Modell

#football #football team #important #libraries #more

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#happy #how #humour #i #i think

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#audience #day #different #different kinds #ever

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#career #ebbs #feeling #flows #going