Quantity Quotes
520 quotes by 425 authors
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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
— Josef Albers
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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
— Artur Schnabel
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These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
— John T. Flynn
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Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos…
— Marianne Wiggins
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Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless…
— Robert Bringhurst
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If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
— Charles Francis Richter
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It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the…
— Lanza del Vasto
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On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly…
— Robert Hooke
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Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped…
— Raymond Kendall
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Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
— Adrian Rogers
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People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a…
— Christopher Brookmyre
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The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic…
— E F Schumacher
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Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity…
— Aristotle
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The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the…
— Freeman Dyson
Who Wrote These Quantity Quotes
425 authors contributed a total of 520 Quantity Quotes, led by these top contributors: