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Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure? -- Rosemary Mahoney
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different. -- David Cross
The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. -- Jim Leach
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. -- Andre Maurois
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. -- H. L. Mencken
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. -- Benjamin Franklin Fairless
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. -- Joan Blades
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution. -- Felix Dennis
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. -- Nikola Tesla
I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle. -- Tyne Daly
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. -- Sophia Loren
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. -- Douglas Adams
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. -- Strom Thurmond
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. -- David Eagleman
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place. -- Jed S. Rakoff
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. -- Catherine the Great
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later. -- Marc Andreessen
Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world. -- Ezra Miller
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. -- Julian Assange
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. -- Sidney Poitier
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in. -- Martin Rees
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. -- Indra Nooyi
Civilization is vastly overrated. -- Patricia Briggs
Running away is vastly underrated. -- Cara Lopez Lee
I find prostitutes vastly important. -- Richelle Mead
Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence. -- Albert Einstein
All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different. -- Bruce Bennett
...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. -- Michael Pollan
We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind. -- Matthieu Ricard
Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform. -- Mark Twain
The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems. -- Rodney Brooks
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. -- John B. S. Haldane
The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting. -- David Mamet
I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers
I think Hillary Clinton is vastly intelligent and good-hearted and extremely qualified. -- Joss Whedon
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. -- Rachel Zucker
Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet. -- Rick Fields
The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment -- Immanuel Wallerstein
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe. -- Al Michaels
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. -- Margaret Millar
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is... -- Douglas Adams
Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. -- Robin Hobb
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race. -- Edward Abbey
I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have. -- Michael Leiter
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved. -- Andrew Solomon
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. -- William Allen White
God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children. -- Gloria Furman
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that theyâ??re vastly outnumbered by blessings -- David Jeremiah
Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. -- James Shikwati
I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise. -- Tony Shalhoub
Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven't changed. -- Richelle Mead
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. -- Arnold Bennett
I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States. -- Michael Leiter
... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks. -- Fanny Burney
I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema. -- Jane Levy
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. -- H. L. Mencken
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours. -- Stephen Evans
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. -- Thomas Sowell
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. -- John Maynard Keynes
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. -- H. L. Mencken
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining. -- Stephen King
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. -- Carl Sagan
It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different. -- Jesse Eisenberg
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years. -- Steve Pavlina
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. -- Robyn Davidson
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent. -- Fumiko Enchi
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do. -- Polykarp Kusch
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. -- Anthony Burgess
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. -- Benjamin Tucker
Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. -- Lynn Margulis
Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones. -- Donald Ray Pollock
The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people. -- John Green
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. -- Bruce Barton
I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day. -- Maurice Levy
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word "? fed, fertilised by many things. -- Renzo Piano
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. -- Bernard Barton
Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning. -- Ray Dalio
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls. -- Abigail Adams
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery. -- Jonah Goldberg
This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire. -- David Weigel
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive. -- Richard Dawkins
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in. -- David Ogilvy
Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version. -- Simon Mainwaring
Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated. -- Joni Rodgers
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. -- Douglas Adams
The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. -- Paul Davies
I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me. -- Philip Roth
I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe. -- Stanislas Dehaene
Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers. -- Timothy Olyphant
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges. -- Booker T. Washington
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. -- Dick Wolf
Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together. -- Tatiana Maslany
It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper. -- F. Sionil Jose
Entertainment works by withholding content with the purpose of increasing its value. And, when you think about it, those two are just vastly different approaches, but they can be bridged. -- Robert Kyncl
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. -- Oliver Burkeman
Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give. -- Saint Augustine
Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other. -- Rudy Giuliani
Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run -- Felix Dennis
In today's vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms. -- Francois Jacob
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet. -- Henry James
The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others. -- Brian Tracy
I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s. -- Amber Heard
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light. -- Paramahansa Yogananda

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