Sums Quotes

128 Sums quotes by 119 unique authors

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.… — Ben Hecht
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums… — Greg Rusedski
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt… — Amy Waldman
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled… — Robert Cailliau
"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen,… — Lewis Carroll
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend… — Rene Dubos
Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time. — Matthew William Goode
My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at… — Bong Joon-ho
If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are,… — James Morcan
It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and… — Art Buchwald
The sum total of all sums total is eternal. — Lucretius
Obedience sums up our entire duty. — Hosea Ballou
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . — Bruce Sterling
The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government… — Vince Cable
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended… — Daniel Starch
In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums… — Bill Vaughan
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is… — Rupert Everett
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. — Larry Flynt

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