Top 100 Only So Much Quotes
#1. There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.
Sue Grafton
#2. There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.
Lupita Nyong'o
#3. Like the hills under
dusk
you fall away
from the light:
you deepen: the green
light darkens
and you are nearly lost:
only so much light as
stars keep
manifests your face:
I feel the total night
in myself rave
for the light along your lips.
A.R. Ammons
#4. I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#6. There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
Calvin Harris
#7. There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.
David Krumholtz
#8. I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.
David Sedaris
#9. I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.
Gilbert Gottfried
#10. But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.
Michael Swanwick
#11. Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?
Sophocles
#12. Well, I'm going to say goodbye. There's only so much my ego can take. This was a great growth experience but I can't say I'm eager to stand around and marinate in it. Please don't come buy your muffin from me tomorrow. I hope wherever you do buy one, it has raisins in it.
Maisey Yates
#13. I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
Donnie Yen
#14. With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
Patrick Whitesell
#15. There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
Charlize Theron
#16. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
Suzanne Collins
#17. I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
C. Z. Guest
#18. There was only so much news you could digest in one day.
Jojo Moyes
#19. Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson
#20. When you lead people through difficult change, you take them on an emotional roller coaster because you are asking them to relinquish something - a belief, a value, a behavior - that they hold dear. People can stand only so much change at any one time.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#21. Stop it, she told herself.
There was only so much she could control.
But that was just it. She was trying so hard because she felt so out of control.
Sarah Addison Allen
#22. Let's just say there's only so much of life that can be taught by pushing a bunch of buttons and looking at a screen.
Katie Kacvinsky
#23. I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.
Erin Merryn
#24. You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.
Angie Dickinson
#25. The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.
Michael Shannon
#27. I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.
Justin Vernon
#28. I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's only so much faith you can have in people.
Sarah Dessen
#29. I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there."
There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.
Neal Stephenson
#30. In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take.
Conan O'Brien
#31. [Terry] Tussey has been my favorite gunsmith, but I'm also using other people for other things and giving other people chances because there's only so much Terry can do. He knows me to be the best shooter and the most finicky, so I'm really a pain in his ass.
Steven Seagal
#32. The garden is a world filled with secrets. Slowly, I see more each day. The black pines twist and turn to form graceful shapes, while the moss is a carpet of green that invites you to sit by the pond. Even the stone lanterns, which dimly light the way at night, allow you to see only so much.
Gail Tsukiyama
#33. Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.
Tibor Fischer
#34. You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people in our community that can give an hour a week. I was recruited because I started gangbanging at 12. I understand the structure; I understand the people inside.
Malik Yusef
#35. Funny thing is, there's only so much you can fill up with earthly things. There's an empty place and a void inside that only God can fill and some folks never figure that out.
Tracie Peterson
#36. It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.
Anna Kendrick
#37. I don't dislike money, but there's only so much money you can use.
Chuck Feeney
#38. There's only so much I can do aside from locking him in his room or super gluing a condom to his penis
R.K. Ryals
#39. Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.
Dorothy Stang
#40. There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#41. I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.
Miranda Hart
#42. There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-looking gatherings.
Margaret Atwood
#43. There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
Chelsea Handler
#44. A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.
Chris Matakas
#45. History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)
Kat Georges
#46. It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
Max Stirner
#47. There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles.
Kelly Eileen Hake
#48. To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
Curtis Armstrong
#49. If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
Christian Louboutin
#50. I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
Rudy Giuliani
#51. There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
Dominic Cooper
#53. You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these established characters, and you start wondering who among us will be the one to create the next 'Superman' or 'Batman' or 'James Bond' or next 'Lone Ranger.'
Dave Gibbons
#54. Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#55. There's only so much a man can survive and as fucking weak as it sounds, I reached my limits when Skye disappeared. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#56. There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other.
Will Bly
#57. You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.
Skylar Astin
#58. There was only so much television you could do.
Jackie Cooper
#59. There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
Karl Urban
#60. I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.
Apolo Ohno
#61. You can't study the map forever. At some point it's time to start walking; there is only so much daylight.
Rob Lowe
#63. When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.
Kevin Griffin
#64. People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
Helmut Newton
#65. The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
Jude Morgan
#66. You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
Beck
#67. But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.
Michael R. French
#69. I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.
J.J. Abrams
#70. Men are only so much use. Men are boys.
Garth Ennis
#71. One verse chosen to meet our needs, read ten times and then laid up in the heart, is better than ten verses read once. Only so much of the word as I actually receive and inwardly appropriate for myself, is food for my soul.
Andrew Murray
#72. Is there only so much pain a man can stand before he becomes irreparably broken?
Bella Forrest
#73. We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
Jeff Lindsay
#75. What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren't actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#76. Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
Robert Teeter
#77. Be careful. . . ." And then she let go. For even she knew there was only so much one could do to protect a winter moth drawn to an icy flame.
Evelyn Skye
#78. How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take.
Yawatta Hosby
#79. If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern.
Peter S. Beagle
#80. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
Helen Gurley Brown
#81. There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.
Karl Urban
#82. Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#83. My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.
Henry Cavill
#84. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.
Libba Bray
#85. The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.
Corey Feldman
#86. Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods
Janet Morris
#87. There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Irwin Redlener
#88. There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#89. There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
Dawn Olivieri
#90. There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
Tobin Bell
#91. Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
Jodi Picoult
#92. I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
James Altucher
#93. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'
Henry Rollins
#94. A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.
Jack Welch
#95. Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
William Boyd
#96. There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.
Sheri Reynolds
#97. There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.
Sherry Stringfield
#98. No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
William Godwin
#99. Sometimes, just when you think you're going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There's only so much room in a human heart.
Elizabeth Berg
#100. Not necessary. Man-buns are hot. I blame Jason Momoa. There was only so much watching him bang Khaleesi the female population could take before they wanted their own Khal Drogo.
Kristen Callihan
