Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

- Gregory Bateson

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

- James Altucher

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

- Hermann von Helmholtz

The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot.

- Howlin' Wolf

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

- Howard Carter

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

- Hesiod

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

- Heather Brooke

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

- Harlan Coben

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

- George Boole

Number is different from quantity.

- Gregory Bateson

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

- Anthony Bourdain

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

- Gregory Bateson

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

- Emile Zola

It's quantity, not quality.

- Dean Ween

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

- Don Marquis

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

- David Ricardo

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

- Charles Francis Richter

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

- Charles Babbage

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

- B. F. Skinner

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

- Alice James