All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.
Why so many eager to hear the word of “I love you” and so few care to see?
When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past.
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Most men take more out of life than they give to it. A few give more to life than they take out of it. The world runs because of such men.
I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.
We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
