Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks’ rain; where the sun is never far...

You ask yourself, ‘What do you want your legacy to be?’ I’m content at this point to say, ‘Those who follow me.’ Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I’ve...

Don’t force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I’m lucky to be one of the former – but, even...

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

The Doctor’ is the kind of character – because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the ‘Doctor’- when you’re there, you’re in it a...

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and...

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

Something I’ve learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive...

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it – if you don’t, you’ll be as miserable as sin. You’ve got to try and find the few good things about it.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the...

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I’ve got a few awards. That’s it.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want...

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what...

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of...

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

If I leave my computer, I’m probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back...

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word...

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not...

For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it’s very exciting.

A few years ago, I thought, I’ll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can’t stop publishing ‘The Magazine’ for two months and work on something else.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different...

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger...

There’s some songs you can cover, and I’ve covered and butchered a few, but you can’t do them all.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English...

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

As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.