Few Quotes

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Philosophy is for the few.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.