Few Quotes

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.

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 grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

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.