Amount Quotes

There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

So if we cover [Donald Trump] the same way, let's say "The Kelly File," we cover him the same way we cover Barack Obama, the same amount, the same skeptical eye, he's going to be fine with that.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

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

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.