Diminishing Quotes

I was living in London and I thought, `there`s nothing here for me anymore`. I don`t want to become this actor who`s going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I`d rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

As an actor, you have to admit you are a show-off. But with so many magazines like Heat, it`s diminishing the mystery of going to see somebody on the big screen. The less you know about somebody the better.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

When you play for so long, you see it`s going to come to an end and you wonder, Is your talent diminishing? Is it a slump? ... He took me aside and told me there was a time in his career when he thought he`d never get another hit. He`s certainly one of the better hitting instructors I`ve ever been around. But psychologically, he started me in the right direction again.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

If you`ve never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you`ve got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Some people say we are diminishing the value of their property by increasing restrictiveness and I would say the opposite. That`s been the experience of the county up to now.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

At the same time, freedom of trade regardless of political control is diminishing the comparative value of extension of territory.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

The violence seems to be diminishing. They`ve stared into the abyss a bit. I think they`ve all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.