It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can’t sing.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, ‘You know, no...

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

Plan the number of hours each day you’ll spend on your dreams, the kind of people you’ll love to connect with, the amount of capital you’ll want to invest and the sources of help you...

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don’t realize how big it is.

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn’t do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most...

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can’t know the amount you will need!

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

I suppose what’s unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

Intentions alone amount to nought. It’s in action, not inaction that we can become all we can be

When you’re bullied in high school, even if it’s the smallest amount, or you’re actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly...

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was...

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

My old life – no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

You’re trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don’t know these people, you don’t know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing...

As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia – people are just like, ‘Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!’

Rise up, empower yourself and take a step. The only way to know that you still have some amount of strength in you when you fall is to attempt to rise up. However if you...

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don’t think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, ‘I’m going to do that...

You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

The real minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction is zero or nothing.

It’s not the amount of Bible you read, it’s the amount of Bible you believe.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us...

I’m an atheist, but I’m very relaxed about it. I don’t preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

I’d say probably the most expensive costumes I’ve ever made were the costumes in ‘The Planet of the Apes,’ because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

I’ve found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

The Israeli accent wasn’t one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

There’s a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.