Quotes of: Few-things Keyword

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

The Fellowship of the Ring

They took a deep draught of the air, and felt that a skip and a few stout strides would bear them wherever they wished.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?

The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

God Emperor of Dune

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.

A Gate at the Stairs

Such polite manners for an armed man who was kidnapping me. Danilo could take a few lessons from him.

The Gathering Storm

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

Here on Earth

Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.

Bloody Bloody Apple

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

The Big Bow Mystery

The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?

Bards and Sages Quarterly

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dave Pelzer

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.

David Weinberger

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz paren...

Ezekiel Emanuel

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

George Andrew Olah

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage.

Jenna Morasca

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Roger Ebert

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

Rabbit Maranville