Few Quotes

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.