Quotes About Quantity

I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more

When you rigidly limit the amount of food you are allowed to eat, it usually sets you up to crave larger quantities of that very food.

For many small businesses, growing in size is a distraction. Because I value my free time and wanted balance in my life, I chose to grow in terms of profit instead. With a team of just five, I've gone from $500,000 to $1.5 million in annual revenue just by adding technology and new offerings. I've updated the value of what I sell, rather than the quantity.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

To think that each skull once had skin and flesh and was stuffed with gray matter—in varying quantities—teeming with thoughts of food and sex and dominance. All now vanished.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time.

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.

food system organized around quantity rather than quality has a destructive feedback loop built into it, such that the more low-quality food one eats, the more one wants to eats, in a futile—but highly profitable—quest for the absent nutrient.

A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages to be both overfed and undernourished, two characteristics seldom found in the same body in the long natural history of our species.

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

Authorities seem to be universally agreed that the average quantity of semen released at orgasm is three to three and a half milliliters, about a teaspoonful, with an average spurt distance of eighteen to twenty centimeters, or seven to eight inches, though according to Desmond Morris, a launch of three feet has been scientifically recorded. It does not specify the circumstances.

The number of errors in code correlates strongly with the amount of code and the complexity of the code.

What's the situation with the grenades?" he asked, turning to Torin. "Insufficient quantity, sir, and they wouldn't stop those rocks anyway." "Why not?" "Well, they're rocks, sir

I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.

I don't think that now: half of everything is something, not nothing. Lots of somethings

Children and fried food; the more you make, the better they come out.

The amount of coal required to propel a single 10,000-ton ship across the ocean was far less than the amount required to drive two 5,000-ton ships across the same distance.

Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us.

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;