Extent

Famous quotes containing the word extent:

“Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)