Quantity Quotes

520 quotes by 425 authors

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting… — Julian Assange
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it… — Charles Babbage
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the… — Irving Babbitt
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity… — Gregory Bateson
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that… — Gregory Bateson
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had… — Anthony Bourdain
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. — Thomas Carlyle
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. — William Ellery Channing
The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality. — Deepak Chopra
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but… — John Peter Altgeld
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank. — James Mackintosh
Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity. — Jean-Claude Carriere
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of… — Frederick The Great
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of… — Frederick The Great
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with… — Aristotle
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard

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