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Quotes About Amount

no amount of money could buy security, and if it could, it would be a bad bargain at any price, since security was a form of paralysis, just as satisfaction was a form of death;
~ Tom Robbins
It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
~ Rachel Kushner
When you have a large amount of data that is labeled so a computer knows what it means, and you have a large amount of computing power, and you're trying to find patterns in that data, we've found that deep learning is unbeatable.
~ Oren Etzioni
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
~ Seth Lloyd
it was one which the Old Man of the Mountain* was in the habit of using when he wished to send people to his paradise in their sleep, or when he wished to bring them back. This prince said also that, by varying the amount administered, it would work, without causing any harm, to send a man to sleep for a longer or shorter period and, while its effect lasted, no one would think him to be alive. The
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
~ John Hawkes
Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.
~ Edwin Starr
I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.
~ Kurt Cobain
Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.
~ Teresa Monachino
There is a lot going on with negotiations in the football business, and I appreciate some people think that it's a crazy, absurd amount of money.
~ Alisson
They vastly overstated the amount of supplies they sold to the fleet
~ Laurence Bergreen
I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
~ Willie Aames
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
~ Randall Munroe
If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.
~ Orson Scott Card
Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.
~ Dan Mintz
And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.
~ George W. Bush
I'm not saying Brad Stevens should not be getting praise for the job that he's done, because I feel like he's done an outstanding job. I'm just saying the amount of praise he's getting, you'd think he won a championship or two. They don't give Steve Kerr that much love. Come on.
~ Robert Parish
In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
~ Janet Yellen
There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
~ Feist
I think people need to understand the amount of emotions I can pull off. I want films I'm offered to have these dimensions.
~ Karthi
My obsession is TV and movies, so I order an obscene amount of DVDs. And I have an obsession with handbags. So once a year, I treat myself to a luxury handbag.
~ Retta
I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
~ Demian Bichir
Heat is the energy of random chaotic motion, and entropy is the amount of hidden microscopic information.
~ Leonard Susskind