Few Quotes

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

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.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.