Few Quotes

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.