Few Quotes

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.