Few Quotes

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.