#amount

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. ↗

— David Byrne

#car #catches #certain #cover #cycling

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.' ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#amount #anything #come #critical #culture

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ↗

— Carlos Castenada

#either #make #miserable #ourselves #same

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#cd-rom #check #databases #everyone #existing

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. ↗

— Julia Child

#amount #baker #because #certain #cook

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did. ↗

— Jim Clark

#amount #any #course #did #fair

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#christian #given #god #heart #i

Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#buying #circulation #divided #gold #indicate

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#culture #heartless #immoral #our #regrettable

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

— Edie Falco

#celebration #household #insane #laughter