Few Quotes

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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.