#mount

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#amount #avail #honor #slightest #without

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all). ↗

— Don Cheadle

#amount #because #favorite #film #i

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#few #give #give me #given #i

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else. ↗

— Stephen Collins

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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#i #i can #lot #moon #mountains

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#amount #because #been #gathering #good

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

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There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#amount #burning #course #destruction #gradual

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right. ↗

— Judi Dench

#amount #director #get #ingredients #know