Amount Quotes

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.

I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

The amount of competition is just literally insane.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.