Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

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.

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award...

I probably don’t make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I’m one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects...

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn’t study ‘Lord of the Flies.’

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never...

I have some girls who I look back on and I think, ‘Wow, they were really horrible to me.’ I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I’m not holding any grudges....

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven’t gotten to do but I’d love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that....

I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national...

In the last few years I’ve been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

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.