He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
Joan Crawford

I am the sum total of everything that I have experienced musically.
Hank Jones

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
David Cross

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
Andres Serrano

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
Albrecht Druer

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
Bill Bruford

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
Robert Vaughn

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
Jeff Zucker

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
Harold Bloom

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Walter Jon Williams

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Bao Dai

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Jimmy Wales