Top 100 Much What Quotes
#1. Perhaps it is not so much what we learn that matters in these moments of awe and wonder, but what we feel in relationship to a world beyond ourselves, even beyond our own species.
Terry Tempest Williams
#2. My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
Sean Penn
#3. It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#4. When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#5. Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,
very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.
Julius Charles Hare
#6. If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
J.M. Barrie
#7. What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
Gabriel Orozco
#8. It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W.S. Gilbert
#9. That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?"
"I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it."
"Oh.
Jim C. Hines
#10. The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
Charles De Lint
#11. With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
Henry Rollins
#12. I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.
N. T. Wright
#13. It's not so much what you win, it's what you become.
Johnny Hunt
#14. If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ?
Yasmin Ahmad
#15. The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.
Joe Abercrombie
#17. It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home ...
Steve Forbert
#18. Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.
Albert Ellis
#19. I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.
Wanda Sykes
#20. It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.
Tim Hansel
#21. I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is ...
Jorma Kaukonen
#22. In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#23. I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.
Josh Hutcherson
#24. I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.
Alice Notley
#25. What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that?
Jennifer Donnelly
#26. Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
Matthew Stewart
#27. I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.
Michel De Montaigne
#28. I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
Kate Bush
#29. In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.
Jill Sobule
#30. It's never about how much you have-it's about how much what you have means to you.
Lindy Zart
#31. I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.
Tracy McMillan
#32. Then, stop worrying so much what the rest of us think; just get on the damned donkey and ride it.
Susanna Kearsley
#33. I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
Lynn Barber
#34. It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
Isaac Asimov
#35. When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.
Diana Nyad
#36. My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
Mary Oliver
#37. It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.
Denis Waitley
#38. It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.
Edward Furlong
#39. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt
#40. Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.
Jo Walton
#42. To avoid detection, the Doctor had attached a device called Randomiser to his TARDIS, his plan being to outfox the Black Guardian by popping up randomly all over the place. Neither Romana nor K-9 had the heart to tell the Doctor that that was pretty much what he did anyway.
Gareth Roberts
#43. I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.
Carice Van Houten
#44. With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.
Devin Hester
#45. It's not so much what you do for yourself to make a mark on this world but what you pave the way for others that truly makes the difference.
Jes Fuhrmann
#46. Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.
Marjane Satrapi
#47. The identity of the Antichrist is, of course, less important than the fact that there is an Antichrist. No one cares much what the Antichrist says or does, but they feel better knowing he's around. In this way, he is much like the pope or the United Nations.
Robert Kroese
#48. When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
Kathleen Blanco
#49. You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.
Rick Mears
#50. Sometimes when you let go of what you want so much, what you want comes looking for you.
Danielle Barone
#51. Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
Philip Sidney
#52. I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.
Masha Tupitsyn
#53. A joke is a joke, and people put too much meaning behind it. They react to it in the wrong way. I mean, you can boo or laugh, and that's pretty much what you're supposed to do with jokes. You're not supposed to take it any further than that.
Dave Attell
#55. It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.
Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.
Therone Shellman
#56. I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don't care too much what things cost. It's not their money.
Donald J. Trump
#57. I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
Dan Harmon
#58. Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
William Shatner
#59. I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#60. History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we've forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.
Peter Geye
#61. I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.
Milla Jovovich
#62. In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.
Morgan Freeman
#63. What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us
Rick Warren
#64. Nikolas shrugged. "So, I have not really changed all that much, Benjamin. I believe I am very much what I once was." He looked across the table. "Totally obsessed with you.
Anonymous
#65. Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
Steve Carell
#66. I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.
Alice Walker
#67. I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.
J. Robbins
#68. I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.
Malcolm Wilson
#69. Art is very much a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Art is not so much what we make, but how we relate to the world. Not a noun, but a verb. This puts art back in a position to be claimed by the many.
Scott W. Alexander
#70. I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.
Melissa George
#71. I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.
Jane Goldman
#72. I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.
Paul Van Dyk
#73. The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have.
Leif Gregersen
#74. What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
T. S. Eliot
#75. I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.
George Harrison
#76. Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?
Richard Wagner
#77. I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.
Prince
#78. Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.
Ward Cunningham
#79. It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.
Danny Boyle
#80. Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.
China Mieville
#81. There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
Charlie Trotter
#82. It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air.
Ralph Martin
#83. the people grew tired of this little gossip. Fathers looked at their children and thought: "They are not learning much. What will make them brave and wise? What will teach them to love their country and old Norway? Will not the stories of battles, of brave deeds, of mighty men, do this?
Jennie Hall
#84. I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
Ben Folds
#86. I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. Benson
#87. If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.
Kirstie Alley
#88. I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
Nicholas Mosley
#89. Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.
Anthony Hopkins
#90. The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.
John Stott
#91. The thing that kind of shakes me a bit is not so much what I'm doing - or the ways I could fuck it up - but all possibilities of it and in it. Like when his body is stretched out over me or under me and the ways of touching each other are . . . forever.
Alexis Hall
#93. I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
Jonathan Winters
#94. The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.
Alan Cohen
#95. Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on
that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.
George Eliot
#96. It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?
Margaret Atwood
#97. If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
John Locke
#98. When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.
Sue Grafton
#99. Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.
Roz Savage
#100. Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.
Chris Rock
