Extent Quotes - page 8

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. (Constance Baker Motley)
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. View quote
Carlisle Floyd
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living. View quote
David Korten
I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. View quote
Dennis Muren
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. View quote
Dirk Benedict
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. View quote
Dario Argento
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. View quote
Dave Edmunds
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs. View quote
Elie Saab
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. View quote
Fred Frith
Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started. View quote
George Thorogood
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. (Gerry Mulligan)
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. View quote
Henry Mayhew
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board. View quote
Howard Staunton
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent. View quote
Jeff Garcia
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. View quote
Jock Sturges
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent. View quote
Jock Sturges
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that. View quote
Jacqueline Emerson
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building. View quote
Joseph Rykwert
Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. (Junichiro Koizumi)
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public. View quote
James Cash Penney
I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed. View quote
Leo Kottke
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. View quote
Lee Konitz
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life. View quote
Lee Tergesen