I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.
I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Success has nothing to do with what we accomplish for ourselves, but the amount of hard works we put forward to others
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220
...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement.
You can’t even begin to fathom the amount of fucks I do not give about what you want.
a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly
