Amount Quotes

• Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

  

  Kató Lomb
  • Interest
  • Results
  • Genuine

• The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Impossible
  • Amount
  • Boards

• Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • School
  • Powerful
  • Security

• After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.

  

  Molly Bloom
  • Wanted
  • Spontaneous
  • Couch

• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Men
  • Madness
  • Amount

• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Problem
  • Firsts

• I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

  

  Mike Piazza
  • People
  • Found
  • Insulting

• It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Knowing
  • Pay
  • Taxes

• The amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.

  

  Allen Newell
  • Search
  • Intelligence
  • Amount

• No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Class
  • Benefits
  • Particular

• And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Mean
  • Worry
  • Stuff

• The amount of people that have said, 'You've inspired me to be confident. I've come out to my friends because of you,' that reduces me to tears every time, because I'm just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody's life. That's massive to me. Massive.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Because
  • Come
  • Confident

• If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Thinking
  • Significant
  • Raises

• I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

  

  Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
  • Figures
  • Amount
  • Neutral

• In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.

  

  David Roochnik
  • People
  • Mean
  • Dog

• There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

  

  William Paley
  • Certain
  • Disorder
  • Reorganized

• I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Humility
  • Massive

• There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Energy
  • China
  • Japan

• The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • Numbers
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Remember
  • Facts
  • Littles

• Take a cup of coffee, keep adding sugar until you reach the point that you like it the most, and then when you add more sugar, you actually like it less. Well, the food industry knows that, and they spend huge amounts of effort finding the perfect spot, not just for sugar, but for fat and salt, as well.

  

  Michael Moss
  • Coffee
  • Industry
  • Findings

• Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Reason
  • Amount
  • Regardless

• My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Fun
  • Fairs
  • Criteria

• I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

  

  Morgan Spurlock
  • People
  • Believe
  • Incredibles

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