All Quotes

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?
‐‐ Tim Tebow

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.
‐‐ Jim Valvano

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.
‐‐ Tyson Fury

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
‐‐ Jessica Seinfeld

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
‐‐ Emo Philips

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
‐‐ Olga Korbut

How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?
‐‐ Erwin McManus

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.
‐‐ Serena Williams

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
‐‐ Jules Verne

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.
‐‐ Mel Torme

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.
‐‐ Eric Braeden

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!
‐‐ Brad Pitt

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
‐‐ John Burroughs

How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
‐‐ Edward Herrmann

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
‐‐ Rene Auberjonois

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
‐‐ Bryan Clay

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'
‐‐ Michael Leunig

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?
‐‐ Mark Harmon

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.
‐‐ Mark Burnett

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'
‐‐ Trey Parker

How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
‐‐ Raul Grijalva

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner

How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.
‐‐ Denis Leary

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
‐‐ Hortense Odlum

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
‐‐ Georg Buchner

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
‐‐ Anna Held

How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
‐‐ Christopher Golden

How many years and how many pictures does it take to win the confidence of Paramount? How many years before my fellow workers say, 'I know he is doing his best?'
‐‐ Preston Sturges

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.
‐‐ James Heywood

How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
‐‐ Joshua Foer

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
‐‐ Herodotus