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Quotes About Quantity

People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
~ Henry Hazlitt
You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge?
~ letterman david iii
Fine. Better than most. But sadly for you there are many heads like it. One hundred. One thousand maybe.
~ Lev Grossman
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
~ Seymour Cray
Knowledge brings power. Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times.
~ Jared Diamond
Knowledge brings power. Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times. Of
~ Jared Diamond
She opened the door within two seconds of his pressing the doorbell, letting out a stream of cats that ran around with such rapidity and randomness of motion that they assumed a liquid state of furry purringness. The exact quantity could have been as low as three or as high as one hundred eight; no one could ever tell as they were all so dangerously hyperactive.
~ Jasper Fforde
the amount of work required to prepare the catalog for the printer makes it cost-ineffective unless you print 25,000 copies. It's only a rule of thumb, but it's a good one.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.
~ Fannie Hurst
I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
~ Pablo Picasso
The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work
~ Brian Tracy
The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I like my opponents the way I like my steaks - in bunches.
~ Andre The Giant
If I'm ordering power bars online, I'll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.
~ Jesse Itzler
Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.
~ Tom DeMarco
I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
~ Tom Hanks
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
~ Tom Waits
One time I bought a pound cake that weighed 14 ounces.
~ Unknown
Don't think a man don't care about one goat because he's got a thousand of 'em," Hosteen Nakai would say. "He's got a thousand because he cares more about goats than he cares about his relatives.
~ Tony Hillerman
EIGHT HUNDREDY FIVE!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.
~ Lawrence Watt-Evans
Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.
~ Unknown
Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
~ William Shakespeare