Quotes About Quantity

The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens disappointment. A re-read is a known quantity.

eight books sounds (and feels!) like a lot, but it isn't as if they'll last me all week.

If I wanted to eat all the protein I need from food, I would have to eat something like 10 chickens per day. That is impossible.

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

I have too many to count. Put it this way, I rival my wife with the amount of shoes she has in Jordans.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Some of the cocaine sold at street level is of such poor quality that police have busted dealers and had to release them because the quantity of cocaine in their product is so low that it's not even illegal.

If you want a gram of cocaine, stand on any street corner. If you want a ton of cocaine, stand on any street corner in Miami.

Above all, we have to remember, Marx is greedy. He wants more of everything. He is suspicious of quality unless it is simply the mark of greater quantity: even if quality could exist alone, it would always be less admirable than a quantity in continual prospect of increase.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

How much hair do you have?" Joe shrugged his shoulders. "A lot," he answered. "But how much, Joe?" asked Mrs. Jewls. "Enough to cover my head," Joe answered. "Joe, you are going to have to learn how to count

Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?

Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.

I'm inclined to think,' said Fen, 'that neither opposing nor advocating change makes much difference to the sum total of human misery. History suggests that it stays constant in quantity, if not in kind. Science rids us of plague but endows us with the atom bomb. Humanitarianism rids us of sweated labour but offers us the horrors of political agitation in its place. There's a choice of evils, but that's all.

If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,The homely hen lays one.The codfish never cacklesTo tell you what she's done.And so we scorn the codfish,While the humble hen we prize,Which only goes to show youThat it pays to advertise.

DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

I usually have three fried eggs every morning. It always has to be three: two is just not enough, and three won't put me over edge.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.