Few Quotes

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

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.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.