Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I’m constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure...

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I’d never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

I’m a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

There’s no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are...

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.

After I’ve sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few...

The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few...

As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I’m sure a few of the Muslim girls and their...

Housing has led our nation’s economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

There’s very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases… gets me every time.

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable...

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It’s never really been addressed, as I haven’t had the time to go out...

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to...

It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential – design-make-enjoy – with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I’m out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

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

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don’t think they printed too many.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I’m really rooting for the Red Sox.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can’t blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That’s my message.

There are a few places around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where people really look out for each other; it’s a real local sort of a...

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I’m looking...

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Many are called, few are chosen.

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

When I’m writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I’m in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little...

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it’s just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that’s important.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

A few hours’ ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I’m not messing around. This is something I want...

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

I don’t mind being ridiculed – well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes – it’s all very ephemeral; it doesn’t really matter what people think of...

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn’t serve to bring me down any.

The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally...

Handwritten political posters – often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper – were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the...

‘Ender’s Game’ is fantastic, and I’ve gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it’s turned out.

When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you’re bound to get a few wrinkles.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

I don’t bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on – and then I’ll go on the running machine,...

My stage name has always been ‘Armin van Buuren.’ When I really started DJ’ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name ‘Armin’, so I couldn’t really change that...

When I tour, it’s like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few...