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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. -- Gerry Mulligan
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. -- William James
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. -- John Updike
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. -- Thomas Sowell
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. -- Gabriel Byrne
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. -- Aldous Huxley
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. -- Steve Squyres
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability. -- Vijay Mallya
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. -- Fredrik Bajer
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. -- Bertrand Russell
They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy. -- Timothy F. Cahill
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. -- Ludwig Quidde
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles. -- Larry Gagosian
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination. -- Jack Williamson
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. -- Georges Cuvier
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world. -- Charles Ives
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. -- Richard M. Nixon
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years. -- Lady Gregory
I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. -- Emilio Estevez
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. -- Chaim Potok
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. -- Elihu Root
The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. -- Ellen Key
We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world. -- Studs Terkel
A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts. -- Sharon Kay Penman
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about. -- Robert Gottlieb
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves... -- Cheryl Strayed
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. -- Charles Ives
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. -- D.T. Suzuki
Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent. -- Aleksandar Hemon
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. -- Wendy Beckett
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra -- Gerry Mulligan
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. -- William Feather
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion. -- Dallin H. Oaks
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. -- Maureen Corrigan
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. -- Steve Squyres
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. -- Thomas Huxley
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution. -- Van Jones
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! -- Christopher McCandless
Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended. -- Harold Town
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest. -- Bertrand Russell
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation. -- Henri Bergson
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical -- Thomas Huxley
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world -- Charles Ives
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state. -- Marcel Proust
The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status. -- Anthony Bourdain
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents. -- John Wanamaker
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own. -- Herbert Marcuse
Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair. -- Elizabeth Bowen

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