Quotes About Amount

Dangers don't hurt us. Only things that happen ever hurt anyone, and a danger is a thing that might happen and might not happen, and sometimes don't amount to shucks.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

They are all just so many opportunities to justify your ways to man, by showing just how little circumstances amount to.

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.

I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

The sight of him all aglow did make me catch my breath. He would always be beautiful. No amount of hatred could take that away from him. But beauty wasn't enough, not enough by half.

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.

If teams are doubting me and offering me such a small amount of money, it might not be worth moving my family.

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

production." Their difficulties were overcome only when it was successfully established that, for any given amount of heat produced by friction

We were outsiders, waiting to become invisible. Waiting to amount to nothing.

If we trace these stories back through the centuries, we find how weak their foundations actually are. In fact, they are based on one or two contemporary pieces of propaganda and a prodigious amount of plagiarism. From there we have our modern story of tulipmania.

My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.

Now I had enough pieces to start on the puzzle. I summarized theobservations in a little matrix: Extent of injury is proportional to regeneration Amount of nerve is proportional to regeneration Extent of injury is proportional to current of injury Amount of nerve is proportional to current of injury Ergo: current of injury is proportional to regeneration

You can't have a heart attack and leave me an orphan. You know I'd just blow all our money on drugs and rock'n'roll." "All the best heroes are orphans," Dad said. "You'd be in good company, if you went on a quest or something." He looked at the other girls. "You're not orphans, are you?" "Not me," they both answered. "You'll never amount to anything....

We are all actors in life. Some act like they won't amount to much while others do the opposite. You have a choice

A person can keep either creativity or money in own mind but never both at the same time and that's the reason the wicked private organizations do not give good amount of money to a creative person but to all crooks.

The private company does not give good salary to an employee for doing good job, but for the work regardless of its nature that helps it to make a good amount of money.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.