Amount Quotes

• The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Truth
  • Amount
  • Spoken

• If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Effort
  • Baseball
  • Uniforms

• If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • God
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Code
  • Insignificant
  • Showing

• Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Ignorance
  • Amount

• There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • motivation
  • Matters
  • Amount

• The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

  

  Virgil Abloh
  • Insane
  • Conversations
  • Culture-shifting

• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Work
  • Television
  • Jump

• Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.

  

  Erik Voorhees
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Legion
  • Inventors

• Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Fighting
  • Hard
  • Compromise

• There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

  

  Francis Lawrence
  • Smoking
  • Smoke
  • Cigarette

• Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

  

  William Devane
  • Faces
  • Aging
  • Destroying

• If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

  

  Caprice Crane
  • Glasses
  • Alcoholics
  • Liquid

• Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Heart
  • Disease
  • Premature

• I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Thinking
  • Southerner
  • Mystique

• The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

  

  Walter Munk
  • Water
  • Quality
  • Amount

• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Respect
  • Person
  • Everything

• The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Information
  • Ultimate
  • Higher

• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Health
  • Should
  • Vegetarian

• You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Decision
  • Records
  • Pool

• Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.

  

  George Jung
  • Enough
  • Smoking
  • Deals

• No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Energy
  • Design
  • Import

• In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writer
  • Amount
  • Scavenger

• I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • May
  • Unique
  • Being Unique

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