Few Quotes

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.