Top 560 Extent Quotes

The reason why we have so many stars campaigning for politics is that when we senior artistes go to speak to people, they at least listen to some extent.
Jeetendra
I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that’s to a certain extent how I’ve lived.
James Frey
So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.
Robert Mueller
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
P. J. O’Rourke
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
Rob McClure
We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.
Nish Kumar
I was influenced by my mother to a great extent and I came to know about Hindu mythology from her.
Pooja Bedi
To one extent, if you’ve seen one city slum, you’ve seen them all.
Spiro T. Agnew
As for action, yes ‘Wanted’ was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of ‘Dabangg.’
Arbaaz Khan
I think, to a certain extent, there is a pressure, although I don’t think I’ve felt the pressure at Lyon more than I’ve felt at any other club I’ve played at.
Lucy Bronze
To the extent that the Trump administration doesn’t like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you’re raising rates and they’re cutting rates is not going to work.
Austan Goolsbee
Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. ‘Hate’ is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.
Meir Soloveichik
I thought my father served the people of Orissa, and I thought I would continue that to some extent.
Naveen Patnaik
My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann
For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we’ve been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right.
Richard Linklater
Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth’s surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
Peter Benchley
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
I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.
Megan Fox
Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and t

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What’s remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?
Bret Stephens
I used to ice skate at parties when I was eight, but that was sort of the extent of roller skating, ice skating, that kind of sport.
Eliza Scanlen
What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.
Leslie Howard
In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he’s educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he’d have three kids from three different women… I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.
Chris Eubank Sr.
My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.
Jack Garratt
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
Daniel Kahneman
The story of ‘Highway’ is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don’t want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
Imtiaz Ali
When you’re doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
John Oliver
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.
Pierre Omidyar
I intend to vote against authorizing the president to use military force in Syria. The Obama Administration has not provided a clear or convincing strategy for inserting our military into the conflict. I am also deeply concerned about the extent to which al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists are involved in the rebellion.
Tom Graves
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Sarah Caldwell
I think, in the wake of Sept. 11, it’s important for the American public to understand that to the extent that there are individuals within the United States who would undertake terrorist attacks, that we are doing something to address that.
Robert Mueller
I don’t think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I’m used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.
Raymond Kelly
Someone who I would describe as a ‘geek’ or ‘nerd’ is a person who loves something to its greatest extent and then looks for other people who love it the same way so they can celebrate loving it together.
Wil Wheaton
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
Kazuo Ishiguro
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.
Tae Yoo
I grew up in a time where on things like ‘The Red Skeleton Show’ or even to a certain extent on ‘The Carol Burnett Show,’ people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
Lorne Michaels
Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
George Thorogood
I do worry about not just the policy consequences of Trump’s terrible policies – and they are devastating – but also just in the idea that the president is to some extent also the head of state.
Daniel Pfeiffer
Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
John Ensign
Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump’s time in office is ending in ignoble fashion.
Brian Stelter
You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn’t just throw you from this table to that wall.
Julian McMahon
There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
John C. Calhoun
If studios don’t get their money back, we don’t have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I’m not just a director, I’m also not stupid. I’ve been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I’m a businessman; I know the importance of that.
Ridley Scott
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
Christopher Alexander
I mean, my music career and my acting career – if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it’s going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I’m hoping they’ll just go hand in hand.
Paloma Faith
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
Ezra Taft Benson
Safety is top priority for us, and all our drivers are fully certified; all of them are checked. Their addresses are checked. Backgrounds are checked. To whatever extent the Indian system makes it possible to check.
Bhavish Aggarwal
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than t

Often it’s seen as empowering if you’re cleverer than the men, or more aware – then you’re giving the woman a great strong role. And that’s true to an extent. But when it’s a comedy, you want to be as mad and silly and funny as the men.
Natasia Demetriou
There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.
Susie Dent
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I’m in sync with myself and I’m transparent, just like my designs.
Elie Saab