Amount Quotes · Page 18

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least…

— Rude Jude

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do…

— Byron White

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better…

— Michael Douglas

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

— Andy Serkis

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

— Gavin DeGraw

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

— Edna Buchanan

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the…

— Heber J. Grant

“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom…

— Dorothy Allison

Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he…

— Paul Halmos

The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line…

— Jamie Sives

When you have nothing but big friends, you never get into arguments...except one. And that is, who is the biggest? I'll let…

— Gabriel Iglesias

If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the…

— Milton Friedman

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack…

— Tara Leigh Cobble

I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical…

— Semir Zeki

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you…

— Osamu Dazai

A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small…

— Dorothy Draper

There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children -…

— Jonathon Porritt

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the…

— Aristotle

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own…

— Bodhidharma

If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no stimulating desire to…

— J. Vernon McGee

Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their…

— Merlin Mann

Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That…

— Dave McPherson

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and…

— Shefali Tsabary

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical…

— Marlene Dietrich

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

— Questlove

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes…

— Julio Iglesias

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he…

— Jose Bergamin

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody…

— Grace Park

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have…

— Jonathan Horton

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk…

— Mike Johanns

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

— Charlie Munger

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

— Kobe Bryant

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

— Francis Bacon

I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday…

— Philip Freelon

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

— Arabella Weir

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

— William H. Calvin

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

— Robert Fripp

There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

— Benedict Cumberbatch