All Quotes

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
‐‐ Paul Simon

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?
‐‐ Emile Hirsch

How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?
‐‐ Ann Packer

How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
‐‐ Ted Danson

How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable.
‐‐ Matthew Lillard

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
‐‐ Barry Schwartz

How much easier is it to be generous than just.
‐‐ Junius

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.
‐‐ Ricky Ponting

How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?
‐‐ Howard Berman

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?
‐‐ Reed Hastings

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour.
‐‐ Emily Oster

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.
‐‐ Robert Bringhurst

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.
‐‐ Cecil Frank Powell

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
‐‐ Robert Atkins

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?
‐‐ Rick Scott

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!
‐‐ Charles James Fox

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!
‐‐ Robert Mundell

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.
‐‐ Michael Heisley

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.
‐‐ John Hurt

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
‐‐ Olympia Brown

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.
‐‐ Catherine Tate

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.
‐‐ Rudolf Bing

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'
‐‐ Esai Morales

How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?
‐‐ Jodie Sweetin

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
‐‐ Karl Rahner

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
‐‐ Terence

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
‐‐ Paul Sweeney