Amount Quotes

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.

In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its use. We cannot keep treating it as if it will never run out.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

When I started out in the profession, it was definitely about proving that I was worthy, but after achieving a certain amount of success, I realized I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

I don't think the amount of belief you have is what's important. I think it's what you have belief in that matters.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.