Quotes of: Large-sums Keyword

Rose: Mr. Andrews, forgive me. I did the sum in my head and with the number of lifeboats times the capacity you mentioned, forgive me, but it seems that there are not enough for everyone aboard. Thomas Andrews: 'Bout half, actually. Rose, you miss no...

Titanic

Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough? Wizard of Oz: You can't.

The Wizard of Oz

Bud Fox: How much is enough? Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Wall Street

Mueller: Listen, the sum of an arithmetic series is S = A + L times N over 2. Interesting, isn't it? Katczinsky: What do you want to learn that stuff for...? One day you'll stop a bullet and it'll all be worthless.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's f...

A.E. Housman

We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

Amos Tutuola

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler." - MJ Mancini, on his best-sell...

Love

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illum...

Peter Ackroyd

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

Rufus Sewell

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Mason Cooley

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

Mike Nichols

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

Kim Kardashian

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

Madeline Kahn

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Stephen Covey

There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.

Douglas Conant

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

Prince

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Roy H. Williams

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

John P. Kotter

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

James Purefoy